LINCOLN, Abraham]. A rare and highly unusual commemorative ladies' fan, imprint of "The Patent Plated Fan, Habana-Paris," n.d. [After April 1865]. 20 x 9½ inches (unfolded) , comprising two stamped gilt brass endpieces with elaborate scrollwork and 9 wooden ribs, each terminating in an openwork star, each decorated with two small cut-out oval portraits (Grant, Johnson, Sherman, Hooker, Seward, and others); the upper paper portion of the fan elaborately lithographed on one side with seven views of incidents of the war (Booth's assassination, Booth's flight and death, the Fall of Richmond and the Monitor and Merrimack); on the back a portrait of Lincoln within a large star, flanked by angels, eagles and a miniature score of a "Cancion à Abraham Lincoln," by Bart. Crespo de Borbon. A remarkable elaborate commemorative fan, probably manufactured in Spain or Mexico and intended for the American market. The late James T. Hickey, to whom it once belonged, had seen no other example.
LINCOLN, Abraham]. A rare and highly unusual commemorative ladies' fan, imprint of "The Patent Plated Fan, Habana-Paris," n.d. [After April 1865]. 20 x 9½ inches (unfolded) , comprising two stamped gilt brass endpieces with elaborate scrollwork and 9 wooden ribs, each terminating in an openwork star, each decorated with two small cut-out oval portraits (Grant, Johnson, Sherman, Hooker, Seward, and others); the upper paper portion of the fan elaborately lithographed on one side with seven views of incidents of the war (Booth's assassination, Booth's flight and death, the Fall of Richmond and the Monitor and Merrimack); on the back a portrait of Lincoln within a large star, flanked by angels, eagles and a miniature score of a "Cancion à Abraham Lincoln," by Bart. Crespo de Borbon. A remarkable elaborate commemorative fan, probably manufactured in Spain or Mexico and intended for the American market. The late James T. Hickey, to whom it once belonged, had seen no other example.
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