Details
A cockade fan, the paper leaf printed to resemble black lace, with turned wooden handle - 11in. (27cm.), circa 1862; another cockade fan in olive wood case; two fans, one of black gauze applied with bunches of fruit of painted silk embroidered with pearlised sequins, with simulated tortoiseshell sticks--8in. (20cm.), circa 1910; and an ivorine brise fan applied with two chromolithographic vignettes of Napoleon--7in. (18cm.), early 20th century (4)
Literature
The first fan resembles Veuve et Philippe Ducrot's patent no. 123 of 1862 - Ecran Ducrot, see Maryse Volet, L'Imagination au Service de L'Eventail, Vesenaz 1986, pp 82 and 84.