Achim, What a lovely fan. It certainly looks handmade to me. Liz Redford Raleigh, NC, USA ---- Achim Siebert <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to show (off to) you a recent ebay purchase and would like to know > your professional opinion about it. > > It's a Chantilly fan and I think at least the lace is genuine. I'm not sure > about the fan sticks and their material - the length of the outmost ones is > 33 cm (13 inches), so the fan is quite huge opened. The sticks have quite > some gloss on the lower part, but the finer sticks for the lace are blunt and > even seem scratched (from cleaning?). The lace itself is in very good > condition, only a few of the picots have lost their shape and some silk ends > are showing on the outer border. The endings of the lace are different on > both sides (see on the right of the photo, it seems as if a second repetition > of the pattern was started to make it fit to the sticks - or to the original > sticks if those were different). > > Maybe some of you could give me some information about the fan stick material > (the seller said "faux tortoise", but I think it might even be real > tortoiseshell), the probable time the lace was made etc. - and maybe even a > rough estimation of the fans worth today, since I have no idea if I payed too > much or if this was a bargain. > > Here's a little gallery of it: > > http://gallery.me.com/achims63#100063&bgcolor=black&view=mosaic > > Thank you for watching and participating in the thrill I have over this nice > item! > > Best, Achim. > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to > [email protected]. Photo site: > http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
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