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'Empire Sun' horn cockade brisé fan
OPERA GLASSES AND SPYGLASSES
spyglass fan
Europe
Early 19th c.
horn; steel
overall: 240 mm x 165 mm x 30 mm

'Empire Sun' horn cockade brisé fan. Two round-ended handles. Twenty two sticks with gilded decoration on one side. Sticks joined by green ribbon. Pointed chevron edges. Clouté with steel. Metal spyglass in central pivot.


1999.4545

BOA Purchase, 1936



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