Brise Fan

Object/Artifact

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Historic Stonington

Name/Title

Brise Fan

Entry/Object ID

2013.028.003.3

Description

Brise Fan 12 Wooden Sticks with shoulders 2 Wooden Guards one with a horizontal ink drawing of a man on his knee and a woman standing (proposal?), break water is inscribed below, 3 sails are visible and a woman leaning on a post then there is a vertical drawing of a man and woman dancing and a design using numbers 0090, above that is a ship with full sails the other guard has a dual initial as one: P with an L overlay ( Loper Palmer?) each stick and one leaf bare hand written inscriptions, some with dates and autographs these have been copied onto a work sheet on Box 99

Collection

Harriet Babcock Brown Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1868