My mom collected fans from when she was very young, and kept a lot of them in this tooled leather box. When I found it and opened the lid, I was drawn back to when I was little, and allowed to handle the fans verrrrry gently.
I'm not sure what if anything used to be in the small leather frame, it is empty now. But the fans are still bright and colorful. This one is my favorite (for obvious reasons).
And I promise I opened them verrrrry gently.
These are so cool! Where did she collect them from? travels? shops?
Unfortunately I don't know where they came from. She collected them in her early days I think. They were kept at my grandmother's house like maybe they were from her teen and high school days, or maybe college. I was imagining that servicemen would buy them overseas and bring them back as gifts, but that is only a guess. Virginia might know.