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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Debora, post: 403009, member: 1476&quot;]Cuba is an interesting idea.&nbsp;&nbsp; Although I don&#039;t know what the colony&#039;s gold- and silver-smithing capabilities were at the time, assume they were high.&nbsp; And tropical -- while much of México is not -- so the palm tree motif makes more sense.&nbsp; There was also lots and lots of new money there in the late 1800s.&nbsp; This fan wasn&#039;t an inexpensive item and it wasn&#039;t in the best of taste.&nbsp; (Ostentatious might describe it.)&nbsp; Richly painted two sides, instead of one, with one side having Fortuny&#039;s new, hugely-popular work.&nbsp; Sticks with an unusual amount of gold and silver work.&nbsp; They could certainly be a commission with portrait of owner in hammock.&nbsp; Just the kind of thing the newly rich would bring back from a trip across <i>el charco.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Debora[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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