Lot 181
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A chromolithographic fan, the leaf possibly depicting the Discovery of the Americas beneath Moorish architectural devices, with a central seated Columbus surrounded by attendants and Native Americans, to either side with scenes of a Native American discovering a European in an amorous embrace with another American and subsequently killing the European with an arrow, the verso stamped with bright flowers against a silver ground, signed T Meyer, the ivory sticks, carved, pierced, gilt and painted with groups of flowers--10½in. (26.5cm.), circa 1860
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A chromolithographic fan, the leaf possibly depicting the Discovery of the Americas beneath Moorish architectural devices, with a central seated Columbus surrounded by attendants and Native Americans, to either side with scenes of a Native American discovering a European in an amorous embrace with another American and subsequently killing the European with an arrow, the verso stamped with bright flowers against a silver ground, signed T Meyer, the ivory sticks, carved, pierced, gilt and painted with groups of flowers--10½in. (26.5cm.), circa 1860

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A chromolithographic fan, the leaf possibly depicting the Discovery of the Americas beneath Moorish architectural devices, with a central seated Columbus surrounded by attendants and Native Americans, to either side with scenes of a Native American discovering a European in an amorous embrace with another American and subsequently killing the European with an arrow, the verso stamped with bright flowers against a silver ground, signed T Meyer, the ivory sticks, carved, pierced, gilt and painted with groups of flowers--10½in. (26.5cm.), circa 1860
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