A jumelle-eventail or opera glass fan

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A jumelle-eventail or opera glass fan
a fan attached to a pair of opera glass, the leaf of silk gauze, the sticks of mother of pearl, the opera glasses attached at the pivot and inscribed "Eole" Bte S.G.D.G. RD482045 - 6in. (15cm.), circa 1906

Literature
A similar patent was taken out by Edmond Bloch, 19th January 1906 no. 362.541, see Maryse Volet, Les Brevets d'Eventails deposes en France au 20eme Siecle, Vesenaz, 1992 p.100.
A similar pair of tortoiseshell by Asprey & Co., London was sold at CSK 13th December 1994 lot 133

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