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There is an example of this fan in The Musee Carnavalet, No. 280, Eventails Actualites - Vie Parisienne, Mai - Octobre 1973
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Exposition Universelle, Paris 1889
a chromolithographic fan by Barbier, 11 rue Meslay advertising Siraudin, confiseur, depicting a crowded scene outside the Opera and Siraudin's shop with celebrities of the day including Victor Hugo, with wooden sticks - 13in. (32cm.), 1889 (one stick broken)
See illustration
a chromolithographic fan by Barbier, 11 rue Meslay advertising Siraudin, confiseur, depicting a crowded scene outside the Opera and Siraudin's shop with celebrities of the day including Victor Hugo, with wooden sticks - 13in. (32cm.), 1889 (one stick broken)
See illustration