Dose anyone read Chinese???

I have a chinese Fan that I bought. Wondering if anyone can translate this for me. It's a double sided fan on silk. There's a tag on it that says 1878.

 

Ask Couchpotatowannabe...we both found our way here when our group decided to move to Facebook. I told him I was Jonesing for an antique forum and was very excited when I found you all. He just joined. He's pretty good.

 

Ok, thanks. I'll see if I can find him on the forum.

 

If you put an @ before his forum name it will notify him he was "tagged"

@Couch Potato Wannabe

 

we have fan folks here...does it have a handle?

 

Yes it's a black lacquered handle. There's also another marking on the handle that I've never seen before.

 

I also have 3 other fans that's pretty cool too. The handles along those is either made from bone or ivory.

 

show us.........

 

Not a fan, if you use it as such, the silk will shatter! it is a face screen, called Pien Mien
https://www.google.com/search?q=ant...nAhWvDWMBHSnJCnoQsAR6BAgKEAE&biw=1440&bih=726

 

第及苍換
First and Last

Though I'm not all that confident in an overall accurate translation here. The third character is a little tricky for me to read its strokes clearly and the changing of even one character can alter the resulting total translation quite a bit.

The best translation of the characters may be evident when someone can translate the rest of the writing.

I am much better at translating the neater handwriting, or printed Chinese characters. The more caligraphic or decorative handwriting forms I find extremely hard to recognise.