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c.1940 Ad Fan Featuring the Dionne Quintuplets
c.1940 Ad Fan Featuring the Dionne Quintuplets
c.1940 Ad Fan Featuring the Dionne Quintuplets
c.1940 Ad Fan Featuring the Dionne Quintuplets
c.1940 Ad Fan Featuring the Dionne Quintuplets

c.1940 Ad Fan Featuring the Dionne Quintuplets "School Days" for a milk company

$ 5.28

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Condition: Good(+) Condition - Sun strike on rear. - Please see photos.
  • Color: Multi-color
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Type of Advertising: Hand Fan
  • Brand: St. Paul Milk Co.
  • Date of Creation: c.1940
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Modified Item: No

    Description

    See Wikipedia for a full history - a shorten version:  The quintuplets, born in 1934, were the first to survive with a birth weight of only 13 pounds, 6 ounces for the five.  The following year, Brown & Bigelow Advertising Company of St. Paul, Minnesota, used the girls' fame to advantage, negotiating a contract which gave Brown & Bigelow the exclusive use of the girls' photographs and
    images.  Between 1935 and 1951, more than 20 million Dionne calendars were distributed throughout the world.  Unfortunately, Brown & Bigelow has no records of the number of Dionne fans made.  Fan historians have determined that 10 different fans were made starting with a sepia tone photo of the girls on their potty seats and ending with a 1943 depiction of them romping in the surf.
    The fan has a 8-1/8" W x 9-1/4" H leaf and the total fan with stick is 14-3/4" high.
    Please contact me for more details or detailed photos.
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