Ephemera, Americana, & Historical Memorabilia

[ADVERTISING FOLDING FANS]. Group of 10 Folding Fans Advertising Various Commodities. [France and Japan: ca. 1890s-1920s]. Color lithographed or pochoir folding fans, most with imagery on the front and imagery and/or descriptive text on versos, one small fan is a paperweight in a lucite box. Sizes approximately 16 x 9” and smaller. General wear, some tears, toning, soiling, a few with broken blades or guards. Generally very good examples of these fragile items. Advertisers include: Champagne Saint Marceaux (design after Louis Wain), De Espana, Bissell’s “Cyco” Bearing Carpet Sweeper, The French Line, untitled fan with embossed paper, Hotel Metropole (no pin at bottom), untitled fan with eighteenth-century style design, Goudron Papier a Cigarettes, Cigarettes Balto, Les Cigarettes Matossian.