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Pleated Cockade Fan (USA)
This is a Pleated cockade fan. It is dated 1870–90 and we acquired it in 1952. Its medium is glazed cotton leaf, tortoise shell handle, silk cord. It is a part of the Textiles department.
Pulling the cord at the bottom of the tube retracts the telescoping cockade fan into its cylindrical handle. Several U.S. patents for innovative fan designs of this sort were registered from the late 1860s through the 1880s.
This object was
donated by
Mary G. F. Beer.
It is credited Gift of Mary Goodrich Fitch Beer.
- Brisé Cockade Fan (USA)
- drilled vulcanized rubber, silk ribbon.
- Gift of Mrs. Henry Woodward Haynes.
- 1951-106-3
- Sketch For Inflatable Umbrella (USA)
- pencil on paper.
- Joseph B. Friedman Papers, Archives Center, National Museum of American....
- 14.2012.138
Its dimensions are
H x W (open, without tassels): 27.9 x 15.2 cm (11 x 6 in.)
Cite this object as
Pleated Cockade Fan (USA); glazed cotton leaf, tortoise shell handle, silk cord; H x W (open, without tassels): 27.9 x 15.2 cm (11 x 6 in.); Gift of Mary Goodrich Fitch Beer; 1952-2-1
Collections in Motion: Tortoiseshell Fan
Demonstration of an unusual fan from the Cooper Hewitt Museum collection. Made around 1880, the fan is opened and closed by pulling a silk cord.
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Plastics.
