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Carter No.: 600

Handlist description: Stock of a fan

Card/Transcription No.: 600-1


No. 600 - See Nos. 389, 415, and 596 a, 599. 1

<> 'Mount' with vanes of feathers intact lotus flower showing the whorl of petals and sepals 'Palmate' 'Capitulum' in the form of a papyrus umbel & calyces Radiating shafts of the feathers with vanes removed 'handle' or 'shaft' in the form of a stem 'knob', an inverted umbel of papyrus or corolla of the lotus flower

About 50 feathers: i.e. 25 on each side. It appears that the shafts of the feathers were stripped of their 'vanes' for a short distance above the quills: thus causing a short interval of bare shafts - like radii - around the 'palmate' (of this fan) into which the quills of the feathers were inserted, resembling much the radiating framework (sticks) of a modern folding fan.

Card no. 600-1 relating to Carter no. 600
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