An Autograph fan

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An Autograph fan
with chromolithographic leaf, the verso with autographs of artists and others including Linley Sambourne, with a pen and ink sketch of fish, and Mortimer Menpes, with wooden sticks - 12in. (32cm.), circa 1890

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Linley Sambourne was the grandfather of The Countess of Rosse whose father Leonard Messel's collection is now in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Eva Douglas signs the fan No. 1 London, so the party possibly took place at Apsley House

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