Featured I am a fan fan!

Woahh! Never heard of telescopic fans, yours is so interesting to see in different stages

As you, I use fans, because I hate hot weather! Cary a very simple old chinese one, all repaired with scotch tape, it belonged to my late mom who used it too during all summer

 

Hi Kyra,
Thanks for the offer, I hope i get batteries soon. I think the fan is all glued. Seeing your Bell Epoch fans brought to mind of my favorite fan. I bought in the 1960s it was huge, it spread out to almost 3 feet and was almost four feet long. I used to kid and said it was burlesque queens fan for dancing. Later when I was selling it the woman who bought it said it was from the 1870s. It was white with black dyed ivory sticks with silver inlays. I did not want to sell it but I paid 10 dollars for it and the woman offered 400 dollars for it. It had a French name written on one stick. I never knew if it was the maker or the woman who owned it. How many times could you dance around it before people began to wonder?
greg

 

You did right to sell it then. First, prices were higher then and second you could sell ivory then without all the hassle.

 

That was a HUGE fan Was certainly used for dance performing, even if burlesque wasn't in the air then (1870?)

 

It was, just not in clubs.

 

Ho ho you seem fairly aware, evely

 

Victorian ladies and gentlemen got up to all sorts of things in private.

 

Strictly don't know what you're talking about...

 

We're European, we are ingenues. Honestly.

 

Y'all do that innocent face a little too well.

 

This thread has been so wonderful to read! I admit to being a fan-fan too. It started many years ago during a trip to Singapore. To cope with the heat, I used to carry a fan everywhere and that's become a habit ever since. During summertime I always take one with me and that spawned a collection, humble though it may be.

One day, I gotta learn how to re-string these things.

 

That's not hard, how many string holes are there per stick?
These are the fans I use in summer, cheap Chinese sandalwood. The big one is 1950s, the small one 1970s:


I posted this one before in an other thread, antique Japanese, handpainted scene of immortals, paper on bamboo frame:

Details:


I love the dopey look on the dragon's face.


Nice touch, a helping hand, even on a fan:

 

Maybe the heat was getting to her.

 

In action.

 

I'm betting the guys are big fans of those fans! Me, I want her shoes....