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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 218124, member: 2844&quot;]Mostly souvenir fans, not so very old. Looks like your grandmother traveled through Asia.</p><p>Fan 9 could be Japanese or Chinese. If you have a picture of it closed, front view, I could tell.</p><p>The Japan Airlines one is based on the fans used in Japanese Noh plays. Every detail is part of the overall symbolism of the character of the play. Noh fans are copied a lot for tourists, but still very pretty.</p><p>Fan 5 is an advertising fan, probably given to your mother when she visited the shop of mr Ramsamy. The picture is of mt Fuji.</p><p>The wooden Bali one could be 1960&#039;s.</p><p>Fan 7: Central Javanese Wayang Kulit style buffalo skin and horn brisee fan. These are used by Indonesians but mainly made for the tourist market. Wayang is the traditional shadow puppet play, kulit means skin. In central Java the Wayang puppets are made of buffalo skin mounted on buffalo horn. Real buffalo of course, not bison.</p><p>The term brisee or brisé is used for fans that are made of similar size and shaped leaves, strung on a ribbon or strong thread.</p><p>Fan 6 has a Japanese theme, but is Western in style.</p><p>Fan 3, again, looks southeast Asian, also a fan that would have been bought by locals as well as tourists.</p><p>Ostrich feather fan 1 is either an original, ca 1910-1920, or a later theatre prop replica.</p><p>Fan 2 is original, ca 1910, with original ribbon.</p><p>It is difficult to tell the materials of 1 and 2, possibly celluloid. Do you have detailed pictures of the material, the pivots and bracket/brackets?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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