A printed fan commemorating a World Fair, probably the Philadephia Exhibition of 1876, with the flags of 24 nations, listing their monarchs, including England, Queen Victoria, Russia Alexander II, and with a landscape vignette of the setting sun, a volcano and a hot-air balloon, with bamboo sticks- 10in., Japanese, probably 1876; and a fan, the leaf a coloured etching of a late 18th century floral chintz,the verso printed with a French love poem, with wooden sticks - 14in., circa 1890 (2)

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A printed fan commemorating a World Fair, probably the Philadephia Exhibition of 1876, with the flags of 24 nations, listing their monarchs, including England, Queen Victoria, Russia Alexander II, and with a landscape vignette of the setting sun, a volcano and a hot-air balloon, with bamboo sticks- 10in., Japanese, probably 1876; and a fan, the leaf a coloured etching of a late 18th century floral chintz,the verso printed with a French love poem, with wooden sticks - 14in., circa 1890 (2)

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