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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4034184, member: 2844&quot;]Gorgeous, Kiko.</p><p>The unusual shape is called fontange, after the ca 1700 fontange hairstyle with a similar high central part. Fontange fans are later though, mostly very late 19th-early 20th century.</p><p>Yours is early 20th century, so yes antique, and to be handled with care. I love the very Art Nouveau loop. It would have had a silk ribbon (with a bow?) to wear it on the wrist.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not a problem, easily solved.</p><p><br /></p><p>These thin fans were less likely to survive than the more sturdy fancy fans.</p><p>My grandmother had a few of these thin celluloid fans (not fontange), she called them dancing lesson fans. A young lady had to have the proper attire when attending dance lessons, of course.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>When she went to an informal dance, she would also have a celluloid fan with her, and it served as a dancing card as well as a fan. Young men would write their name in pencil on the leaves.</p><p>For formal occasions she had ivory and lace fans, painted with delicate flowers.</p><p>I still have her surviving fans, they were the start of my fan collection.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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