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Show Costly Fans.' Of beautiful and costly fans owned by New York ladies one is a Chinese affair belonging to Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt. It is a very dream, so delicate is its ivory carving. Mrs. Hicks-Lord is the lucky possessor of a really magnificent fan. It i composed of the finest and daintiest point d'Alencon, with an artistic combination combi-nation of leaves and flowers. The frame is of white figures, with any quantity of ornamentation in gold. It was worn suspended from a chain of diamonds j and pearls. Mrs. Whitelaw Reid has a most exquisite ex-quisite affair in the shape of a fan. It is of white silk, embroidered in colors and ornamented with small pearls. Mrs. ; Coleman Drayton has a vellum fan, painted with a scene from Spanish history his-tory and mounted on carved sticks of sandalwood. Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer Rens-selaer has one painted by Seloir, and valued at $2,000. Mrs. Whitney has a very valuable point d'Alencon ,fan, mounted on a framework of gold. New York World. |