Fab Antique Victorian Napoleon III French Silk Embroidery 30cm Hand Fan Ebony Guards, Sticks Mechanical French The case is also tortoise

The case is also tortoise shell

Another French tradition has to do with the gift of knives or a knife as a symbol of the cutting or ending of a relationship

Has its 18k gold monogram there mounted still in top center of the lid

but has a flaw to the inner thin wood lip as you can see

Fab Antique Victorian Napoleon III French Silk Embroidery 30cm Hand Fan Ebony Guards, Sticks Mechanical French The case is also tortoiseThis old beauty is SO Napoleon III, it ought to be in the displays of Empress Eugenie's Chinoiserie room at Fontainbleau Palace, don't. you agree? Large, elegantly worked silk satin in claret red with silk embroidered flowers dancing across it and those 30cm black perforated, carved ebonized sticks, still in fine form with the original passementerie tassel. In an era of black and red, it nails it. And it's been well preserved in the old original box,