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a floral bouquet fan, with case to resemble hand of a fan, pulling the top of the card opens card out to twice its original size, on the leaves is a printed quotation from Wordsworth, Keats, Thompson and Scott, each verse framed by lillies of the valley, pulling silk string pulls bouquet into case - 5in. 13cm. high (closed), 7in. 18cm. high (open), circa 1870
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a floral bouquet fan, with case to resemble hand of a fan, pulling the top of the card opens card out to twice its original size, on the leaves is a printed quotation from Wordsworth, Keats, Thompson and Scott, each verse framed by lillies of the valley, pulling silk string pulls bouquet into case - 5in. 13cm. high (closed), 7in. 18cm. high (open), circa 1870
See Colour Plate 7
Literature
V. Buday, George. The History of the Christmas Card, see plate 164 and page 173 for description of similar fan by Rimmel