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<p>[QUOTE="Ghopper1924, post: 4146978, member: 5170"]Calling [USER=2844]@Any Jewelry[/USER] ! And Everyone Else! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>OK, here are some photos of the fan in question, along with a little information. The note on the back was written on December 25, 1940 to a relative. The first sentence says "This fan is 57 years old," which means that it would have been made in 1883. The note goes on to say that it was given to another relative when she was a girl in Sunday school class, and came from the Kansas City firm of J. Bullene, Moore, Emery and Company, which later became the locally famous Emery, Bird Thayer Department Store, which had a building downtown and is now sadly out of business. The note goes on to say that "probably this is the only one of these fans in existence." I don't know how they came to that conclusion.</p><p><br /></p><p>So......Despite the cherry blossoms, not from Japan? What's your learned opinion??</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]332229[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]332230[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]332231[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ghopper1924, post: 4146978, member: 5170"]Calling [USER=2844]@Any Jewelry[/USER] ! And Everyone Else! :) OK, here are some photos of the fan in question, along with a little information. The note on the back was written on December 25, 1940 to a relative. The first sentence says "This fan is 57 years old," which means that it would have been made in 1883. The note goes on to say that it was given to another relative when she was a girl in Sunday school class, and came from the Kansas City firm of J. Bullene, Moore, Emery and Company, which later became the locally famous Emery, Bird Thayer Department Store, which had a building downtown and is now sadly out of business. The note goes on to say that "probably this is the only one of these fans in existence." I don't know how they came to that conclusion. So......Despite the cherry blossoms, not from Japan? What's your learned opinion?? [ATTACH=full]332229[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]332230[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]332231[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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