9th Mar, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

The Fan Collection

 
  Lot 2124
 

2124

A 1920's Advertising Fan, of fontange form, advertising ''The Haymarket Kit Cat Club''...

A 1920's Advertising Fan, of fontange form, advertising "The Haymarket Kit Cat Club" (London), showing elegant ladies in period dresses, long pearls and bobbed hairstyles, their partners in dinner suits, one with a monocle, in the foreground a couple partaking of chilled champagne, the gentleman smoking, the lady with a sleeping white cat on her lap. The recto is printed with a profile of the club's building, and again marked "The Haymarket Kit Cat Club". Simple wooden sticks, double paper leaf. Height at centre 9.75 inches or 25cm. Together with A Fontange Advertising Fan for The Metropole Brighton, the wooden sticks painted black and painted in pastels, the paper leaf showing scene including two women in kimonos with deep obis. The verso is plain. Height 8.75 inches or 22cm (2)

First fan: Purchased on 13th May 1980, for £2. The vendor believes this was her Aunt's favourite London night club.

Sold for £90
Estimated at £30 - £40


 

First fan has good colour, slight rubbing to some folds, and a faint stain on the verso. The second fan is in good order.

 


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Auction: The Fan Collection, 9th Mar, 2019

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