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Two miniature caricature fans, both worked in pen and ink, one with an allegory of the Russians and Italians plucking the Austrian two headed eagle inscribed Le Russe a l'Italian Tiens Ferme je le deplume; the other of the Emperor Franz Joseph in Hell, inscribed Francois-Joseph aux enfers, Je ne pensais pas avoir envoye ici autant de mes sujets, with sticks alternately of bone and wood - 3in. (7.5cm.)each, French, 1916 (2)

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Two miniature caricature fans, both worked in pen and ink, one with an allegory of the Russians and Italians plucking the Austrian two headed eagle inscribed Le Russe a l'Italian Tiens Ferme je le deplume; the other of the Emperor Franz Joseph in Hell, inscribed Francois-Joseph aux enfers, Je ne pensais pas avoir envoye ici autant de mes sujets, with sticks alternately of bone and wood - 3in. (7.5cm.)each, French, 1916 (2)
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Possibly by Jean-Louis Forain

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