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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 233327, member: 25&quot;]Usually used in front of a fireplace when the fire is out. If the fire was burning, you&#039;d use a pole screen between the face and fire, I think the idea was to protect lady&#039;s complexions in the days when the difference between infra-red (firelight) and ultra-violet (sunlight) was not understood. </p><p><br /></p><p>Although too much infra red can cause redness as the blood&nbsp; tries to cool the skin. Neither suntans nor redness were wanted in Georgian times, a fashionable pallor indicated you did not need to work. Or that you were a vampire.</p><p><br /></p><p>This firescreen is probably 1920s or 30s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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