Details
A dagger cockade fan
the black silk mount painted with poppies, daisies and cornflowers, with metal hilt, the scabbard of American cloth, with chain and clip - 26cm., probably 1874
the black silk mount painted with poppies, daisies and cornflowers, with metal hilt, the scabbard of American cloth, with chain and clip - 26cm., probably 1874
Literature
This is very similar to the fan patented by Denus et Duval, patent no. 221, illustrated in Maryse Volet, L'Imagination au Service de l'Eventail, Vesenaz, 1986, pp. 199-200
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