Fab Antique Victorian Napoleon III French Silk Embroidery 30cm Hand Fan Ebony Guards, Sticks Mechanical French no cracks or repairs there

no cracks or repairs there

Here's just one from my 'favorites'

I usually try my best to identify

The white trim has one chipped curlicue there above and to the right of the M on the top of the box

Fab Antique Victorian Napoleon III French Silk Embroidery 30cm Hand Fan Ebony Guards, Sticks Mechanical French no cracks or repairs thereThis 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,