Fancy Victorian Gold Lace and Sequin Hand-sewn Evening Fan mid-century snapshot The head attaches to a

The head attaches to a post and can be removed and turned

with a soft ochre yellow for the interior of the ears and black squiggles all over for the fur

For example

approx 1/2 across at opening

Sliding off the lid on one side reveals one board

Fancy Victorian Gold Lace and Sequin Hand-sewn Evening Fan mid-century snapshot The head attaches to aQuite a fan! And what a lot of labor went into making it, with these hundreds of round and star and flower shaped sequins all sewn onto it by hand, gold lace sewn onto it along the top edge, and carved decoration on the sticks, again highlighted in gold. (I really feel like this fan should feature in an ice skating routine!) I found this and two other antique hand fans together, and might guess they were all once part of Miss Fanny Allen's collection,