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AN EARLY MOTORING FAN BY GBR. RODECK, WIEN
the leaf of black kid, the sticks of ebony, with steel fylfot motifs on guardsticks, one with lower arm elongated,--12in. (30.5cm), Viennese, circa 1900
the leaf of black kid, the sticks of ebony, with steel fylfot motifs on guardsticks, one with lower arm elongated,--12in. (30.5cm), Viennese, circa 1900
Literature
There are two plain examples of motoring fans in the Bayerischen Nationalmuseum, see Faecher, Kunst und Mode auf Funf Jahrhunderten, Munich, 1987, p.219. There are three examples with ciphers in the Faecher Cabinett, Bielefeld, see Faecher Spiegelbilder ihrer Zeit, Marie-Luise and Gunter Barish, Munich 2003, p. 187.
These fans were used to shade the sun in early open motorcars.
These fans were used to shade the sun in early open motorcars.
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