A Very Rare Victorian Chromo Paper Fan "Au Bon Marche". There are 6 sections of the fan with beautiful colored pictures on each section. Each section is in the shape of an oval with gold trim making the fan feel very elegant and rich. The pictures on each section tell a little story about children. Beautiful detail and bright colors. A silk satin ribbon holds fan together (the silk a little fragile).

Measures 4 1/2" (11 cm) height, 1 1/2" (4 cm) wide when closed and 7" (18 cm) wide whrn open.
Good condition to age.

“Au Bon Marche” the store was founded as a small shop in Paris during 1838. The founder was Aristide Boucicaut. It was a fixed-price department store from about 1850. It was a successful business, and a new building was constructed for the store first by Louis-Auguste Boileau in 1869 at 24, rue de Sevres, where it remains today. Alexandre Laplanche ornamented Boileau's ironwork technology. Louis-Charles Boileau, his son, continued the store in the 1870s, consulting the firm of Gustave Eiffel for parts of its structure. Louis-Hippolyte Boileau, the grandson of Louis-Auguste Boileau, worked on an extension to the store in the 1920s. A picture of the store is on the back of the fan.

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