Details
Eventail a dislocation, a trick fan, the leaf composed of pink watered silk woven with dots and painted with birds and blossom, with bone sticks, gilt - circa 1879; and a lithographic fan of children playing (2)
Literature
The design of the first fan was patented by Theophile Heaulme-Fleury in 1879, see Maryse Volet, L'Imagination au Service de l'Eventail, Vesenaz 1986 pp.09 and 127, patent no. 303