1902 Anglo-Japanese treaty souvenir fans – £40 at Special Auction Services
Advertising and souvenir fans from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries received a mixed reception at the April 10 Special Auction Services sale at Newbury devoted to works collected by the late Martin Willcocks.
This is an area where £100 can still go a long way. For example, two Edwardian paper fans advertising the Carlton Hotel and the Hotel Metropole in London went at £80 while a pair of Anglo-Japanese wood and paper folding fans displaying the Union Jack and the Rising Sun sold below estimate at £40 to a collector intending to give them to a museum.