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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 846290, member: 2844&quot;]From what I can see of the tiny photo, these are all ca 1940s-60s Japanese advertising fans and gift fans handed out by shops, restaurants and hotels to their customers</p><p>They were most likely made in Boshu, southern Japan, which has a lot of bamboo for the frames.</p><p>Bamboo fan production in Boshu dates from the 1870s-80s, and is still going on. The paper would have been designed by an advertising company, and the prints mass produced.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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