Lot 122
122
A Carlist cockade fan, the linen leaf painted with the Carlist motto D.P.R. (Deo, Patria, Rex: God, Country, King), the wooden handle is carved with the cypher of Don Carlos VII and the Carlist motto in a cross - 7in. when closed, 9½in., open, circa 1868

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A Carlist cockade fan, the linen leaf painted with the Carlist motto D.P.R. (Deo, Patria, Rex: God, Country, King), the wooden handle is carved with the cypher of Don Carlos VII and the Carlist motto in a cross - 7in. when closed, 9½in., open, circa 1868

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Lot Essay

The Carlists were supporters of Carlos VII as claimant to the throne against Alfonso VII.
This type of cockade fan was termed Chinois. In L'Imagination au Service de L'eventail, M. Volet lists two patents similar to this fan taken out in 1868 by Otto Bruck and Edward Thomas Hughes

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