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Lot 197
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Prague--The Czech-Slavonic

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Ethnographic Exhibition in Prague, 1895. Prague: L.J. Cecha, [1895], folding paper fan with a chromolithographed view of the exhibition depicting numerous historic buildings, captioned in Czech, backed with cloth, mounted on pale green wooden sticks with silver gilt decoration, 34.5cm. (13.5in.)
  • paper
For the exhibition traditional Czech farms, a church and other buildings were built in a park outside Prague, where peasant life and Czech crafts were celebrated.