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Ernest Kees patented an Eventail de poche, patent no. 290 in 1878, see Maryse Volet, l'Imagination au Service de l'Eventail, Vesenaz, 1986, pp.14 and 26
Details
Eventail de poche a folding or pocket fan by E. Kees, signed on stick, the silk leaf applied with two portrait engravings printed on silk of Queen Marie Antoinette, painted with roses and embroidered with sequins, the wooden sticks gilt and hinged in the centre - 7in. (19cm.), open and 4in. (10.5cm.) folded, circa 1895 - in box by Ernest Kees, 9 Boulevard des Capuchines, Paris