Flags Of The Allies, WWI: A Fan with wooden monture painted pale blue, each stick wrapped around with a paper flag representing the seven WWI Allies: from left to right, Italy, Great Britain, Japan, Serbia, Belgium, Russia, France, before the USA joined in 1917. The gorge is further decorated with paper resembling a tied ribbon bow, in the French colours, printed with advertising for the Champagne producer Eugene Cliquot, Reims, founded in 1894, and the words "La Gloire des Alliés". The verso, shows champagne in glasses, with the words Héroiqués Alliés Demandez UNE COUPE de "GLOIRE", partout", encouraging the consumption of their champagne named "La Gloire". The bottle which can be seen on an advertisement on the Internet, shows the flags and wording as part of the label and refers to 1916. The word deposé (patent) is printed on the flags.

Guard length 8.75 inches or 22cm

 

 

See page 227 of the exhibition Catalogue entitled "Fans: War and Peace", the Fan Museum, Greenwich, which shows a similar but later fan from 1918 which includes the US flag, and not that of Russia. Research on the three versions of this fan has also been published in the FCI Bulletin Summer 2014 # 98, researched by member Pierre-Henri Bigger