Fab Antique Victorian Napoleon III French Silk Embroidery 30cm Hand Fan Ebony Guards, Sticks Mechanical French 7 nor land Terrace

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invitations to clandestine trysts and such words of love would be sent by courier to one's beloved

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

One love filled this tube

Here's just one from my 'favorites'

Fab Antique Victorian Napoleon III French Silk Embroidery 30cm Hand Fan Ebony Guards, Sticks Mechanical French 7 nor land TerraceThis 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,