Folding Hand Fan

Artist Miss Edith A. Buck

Dateca. 1900

Terms

Fans
Brass
String
Paper
Bamboo
Paint
Continental Europe
United States

Dimensions31.73 cm (12 1/2 in.)

Markings"Mrs. Holden" written twice on back of fan

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Joanna Ballou Savery (1995)

Object number1995.20.13

DescriptionBamboo and paper fan. Concord commemorative fan.The fan features plain, bamboo sticks and a pleated paper leaf. The leaf is beige and grey, embellished with painted white and yellow dogwood blossoms as well as printed images of Merriam's Corner, the Minute Man Statue, and the Old North Bridge. Brown string used as a decorative element on the exterior. Brass ring. Brown cotton tassel. Fans .13-.16 located in a box marked "Five commemorative fans from Concord, MA 1900, 125th anniversary of battle of Concord, beginning of the revolutionary war."

1995.20.1-.197, Fan collection.

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