A Quantity of 19th and 20th Century Fans, including some for spares and repairs: To include a late 19th century cream gauze fan painted with a lady wearing an open robe and fine sleeve ruffles leaning from an upper window to reach a floral bouquet which a well-dressed suitor, concealed behind the shutter, has entered the courtyard to present. The upper leaf is edged with a fine handmade bobbin lace. Signed to the right, indistinctly, starting with "V". The verso is plain. Mounted on a pink mother-of-pearl, lightly incised and gilded. Together with another large fan of a similar period, the monture of simply incised bone. The cream leaf is painted in pastels with marguerites and dog roses, and a band of cream machine lace provides an upper edge; a late 19th century fan, dark wood sticks lightly gilded, the guards formed as feathers. The gauze leaf, of two shades of aubergine, is painted with several birds in flight: a large late 19th century bone fan, the monture with floral details in slight relief, the top edge of the cream gauze leaf applied with handmade cucumber bobbin lace, the leaf applied from mid-point with a frill of cream machine lace, above which the leaf is embroidered with simple sprig designs in silver sequins; a simple but colourful Chinese paper fan printed with flowers and mounted on white painted wood; three early 20th century feather fans in various states of repair and montures in different materials, one in black, one brown and one cream; a large late 19th century bone fan with simple incised guard and a plain cream gauze leaf; a 20th century tourist fan of appealing shape, wood, painted black and gilded. The cotton leaf is narrow, and features a sky with upper tree sections and tumbling flowers in yellow and blue with shaded leaves. The flowers continue onto a gorge that has been shaped to hold a romantic scene, a couple seated on the outskirts of a village, the whole fan recto linking the scenes with the flowers across fabric and wood. The verso is plain. Signed, H de V…. (10 )