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The Kaiser, a miniature bone brise fan with a caricature in pen and ink of the Kaiser trying to scrub his arm inscribed violation de la Belgique, massacre... C'est fini! aucun acide ne peut enlever ces taches. Jamais plus ils ne me serrrr[stet]ont La Main! - 2in.(5.2cm.), 1916; and three miniature fans painted with caricatures of the Kaiser, one inscribed Les Amis de Guillaume, with Death and the Devil - with wooden sticks ; another inscribed Maudits! allez!!au feu eternel with the three Emperors walking through hell, with bone sticks painted with Satan's tripod ; the third with the allies spiking the Kaiser's scull with bayonets with an aeroplane flying by, with bone sticks painted with the colours of the Allies - 2.8in. (7cm.), the second fan 3.2in. (8.5cm.), 1916 (4)

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The Kaiser, a miniature bone brise fan with a caricature in pen and ink of the Kaiser trying to scrub his arm inscribed violation de la Belgique, massacre... C'est fini! aucun acide ne peut enlever ces taches. Jamais plus ils ne me serrrr[stet]ont La Main! - 2in.(5.2cm.), 1916; and three miniature fans painted with caricatures of the Kaiser, one inscribed Les Amis de Guillaume, with Death and the Devil - with wooden sticks ; another inscribed Maudits! allez!!au feu eternel with the three Emperors walking through hell, with bone sticks painted with Satan's tripod ; the third with the allies spiking the Kaiser's scull with bayonets with an aeroplane flying by, with bone sticks painted with the colours of the Allies - 2.8in. (7cm.), the second fan 3.2in. (8.5cm.), 1916 (4)
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Possibly by Jean-Louis Forain

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