Fancy Victorian Gold Lace and Sequin Hand-sewn Evening Fan enamel bowls The cards are in great

The cards are in great shape but the box--which measures 3 3/4" wide x 1 3/4" deep x 2 1/2" tall--shows its age

and a remnant of thread at his waist

but they almost have the feel of ceramic

Beautifully crafted and beautiful still

Fancy Victorian Gold Lace and Sequin Hand-sewn Evening Fan enamel bowls The cards are in greatQuite a fan! And what a lot of labor went into making it, with these hundreds of round and star and flower shaped sequins all sewn onto it by hand, gold lace sewn onto it along the top edge, and carved decoration on the sticks, again highlighted in gold. (I really feel like this fan should feature in an ice skating routine!) I found this and two other antique hand fans together, and might guess they were all once part of Miss Fanny Allen's collection,