Featured I am a fan fan!

(Not sure where to post these,think this is the best place?)
I found a broken bone fan last week,(and a faux plastic one from a different place).

I found it in a book which says it's early 19th C. Thought I'd show it here,and while I was at it, I took a pic of all my fans together. I don't have many and some are broken but I do love them xx
The bone one




The plastic one


Both together

The rest

 

( I don't have a Q,was just showing them to you) x xx
Oh and what I was trying to say but got distracted was that the plastic one is a copy of the bone one,isn't that a co-incidence that I got them both last week but at different places at different times!)

 

Hi Boudicca!

I believe AJ is a collector too.

 

Hello Judy!
I thought I half remembered someone here was a collector...I only have a teeny collection so not really a bona fide collector but I do enjoy the ones I have,and I am always on the lookout for new ones!

 

Love them! Fans are another thing I could easily collect, were funds & space unlimited. I'm a sucker for the color family, so the one in blues & greens is my favorite here, but also strikes me as a bit different from others generally, not just the other ones of yours. Do you know anything about it?

 

Hey Cuz!

I know nothing about any of them! I got a book about fans last weekend too, I found the bone one in it but I haven't looked very well ( well I've only looked at the pics!) and can't see any of the others...I am clueless as always!
I just pick them up where I can and if I like them xx

 

Yes, I am another fan collector.
If the bone one is small, up to the length of a regular woman's hand when closed, and opens at the right angle, not too far open, it could be ca 1810. If it is bigger, and the opening angle is wider, it is later but still antique.
The other ones are very pretty, but you rarely find those in books, because they are too recent and mostly souvenirs.
I see a couple of handpainted Spanish ones, the one with the flower cart is a Japanese souvenir on a European inspired frame.
The ones with the landscapes look Japanese as well, but I would need to see more photos of those.

Which book did you get?

 

(oh it's a flower cart! Wondered what it was!)

The bone on is smaller than my hand, and I have small hands

This is the book I have xx

 

Interesting,thank you, will have a look x

There is a Fan club on the net.
https://www.fancollectors.org/[/QUOTE]

 

hahah I DO have one of those type of fans too,somewhere

 

The Nancy Armstrong book is good, a nice read and good information.
The most popular and informative site for fan fans is the one of the prestigious fan circle, the oldest fan club of the world. They have a truly fantastic fan site for fan fans.
https://www.fancircleinternational.org/

Yep, it's ca 1810. Here is one of mine, blonde horn with sequins, Dutch, same period. The horn is so thin, you can hardly see the details, I should have photographed against a dark background.



I should take more pictures of my fans, but here are some I already have:
Chinese export, ivory ca 1815, some damage, I also have an undamaged one, but no photo:


Chinese export, bone with goose and peacock feathers, ca 1840:


A small replica of an Art Nouveau fan leaf, painted on silk by a Dutch artist. The yellow blotches along the top aren't stains, it hasn't been framed properly. I'm planning to take it out of the frame and iron it.


I saw a picture of the original once, but can't find it anymore, so no further info.
Maybe our top sleuth @i need help can help me?

 

The black fan with the blue and pink flowers and green leaves looks very similar to souvenir fans that I bought in Spain from a Chinese shop in the late 2000's when I lived in Sevilla. I would assume that the blue one with cutouts is similarly a souvenir from Spain. I have a red one and a black one that I still treasure. I'll have to post pics of them if I get time today. Beautiful fan collections!

 

I don't know anything about fans.
All of those shown by both of you are very pretty

BJ
I should think that you could get a piece of blue satin ribbon and repair the bone one so that it opens properly.

@Any Jewelry if she did that would it hurt the value? As it is now I don't think it has much value the way it is. But as I said - I know nothing about fans.

 

It is always best to hunt for some antique ribbon, but a modern replacement of the same colour can't hurt when it has lost most of the original.

 

That's the one. I would be very happy if you found it, so thanks for being so nice to try.

 

The patterns would have been cut with a fret (or scroll) saw. You can cut with a fret saw starting inside the edges of the piece. You drill a small hole, insert the saw blade through the hole, and then attach the blade to the saw frame. Fret saw blades are very coarse, and very brittle, very thin wire. They cut a very thin line and the operator has total control over the direction of the cut.

This is a fret saw:


Here's a treadle example:


And you can see on your fan blade the preliminary holes that were drilled as starting points for the fret saw cuts:


My father, when he was a boy, adapted old treadle sewing machines into fret saws.

You look hard at one of those wire blades and it will break.

 

I think it has lost all the ribbon and what we see is stain.