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Fleischer's Auctions is pleased to present Day 1 of our 2025 Spring Premier Auction featuring rare items from colonial America, the Revolutionary War, Western Expansion, and African American history.
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Lot 225

[EPHEMERA] Red Star Line Inscribed Folding Fan

Estimate: $250 - $500
Starting Bid
$100

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Henri Cassiers (1858-1944), artist. Red Star Line printed paper and wood folding fan. Paris: Eventails Chambrelent, ca 1910s. 

 

A beautiful folding fan designed by Flemish artist Henri Cassiers to advertise the Red Star Line shipping company. This example is signed by several passengers to the recto among the printed American flag motifs. The verso features a four-line poem dated 30 April 1913 in Finland: "The human life is as the ocean, / Rough, untamed, fathomless / Where a moment big motion, / Follows days of long idleness." 

 

Another example of this fan, without inscription, is held at The Fan Museum, London, LDFAN2003.136.Y.

 

[Ephemera, Folding Fans, Advertising, Shipping, 19th Century]

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