Antique French Empire Sequin, Silk and Tortoise Shell Pique Hand Fan, c.1800-1815 Handsome gentleman cost me over $1000

cost me over $1000

Charming antique Victorian to Edwardian era Black Forest hand carved candlestick or epergne stand pair with long-tailed game bird figures and overhanging branches or foliage

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I point out that the backside panel of tortoise shell has a good deal of bug bite loss to it

Antique French Empire Sequin, Silk and Tortoise Shell Pique Hand Fan, c.1800-1815 Handsome gentleman cost me over $1000Oh, this is an old one! More than 200 years, and a fragile beauty. First Empire, Napoleonic era, c. 1800 1815, with an astounding amount of sparkle. I've owned it for decades, found it in Paris years ago. Fragile, it will be one to display but not to use. The delicate old tortoise shell sticks, guard sticks are intact but they're holding quite a load of hand sewn gold and silver sequins that are too much of a weight to move this one in use. No matter