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Fan

Description: Folding fan. Guards and sticks of lightly carved ivory (bone?) with scrolling foliate designs. The leaf is of white lace. Sticks are unadorned on the reverse. No visible labels, marks or signatures. Fan has alternately been identified as Irish lace or machine-made lace, and dated 1830's or 1880-1899.
Date: 1880/1899
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Purse

Description: Handbag with cast and chased silver frame decorated with openwork figures of children harvesting grapes. Ball/snap closure. Silver suspension chain of alternating oval links and links formed of three flower-heads. Bag is oval shaped, black wool with petite point embroidery decoration on each side of a bouquet of trumpet shaped flowers. Pink satin lining. Hallmarked "800" on frame.
Date: 1880/1889
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Folding fan

Description: Folding fan. Guards and sticks of carved and pierced ivory (bone?) with a foliage designs. The white sheer doubled organdy leaf is hand-painted with central vignette of a garden scene of a couple greeting a woman seated on a bench. The leaf with added hand-panted border of a garland of flowers. Reverse is unadorned. No visible labels, marks or signatures.
Date: 1880/1989
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

[Letter from M.-C. Fortier to R. Renfro, July 24, 1995]

Description: Letter from Marie-Claude Fortier from the Wine-Museum of Arbois to Dr. Roy Renfro (head of the T. V. Muson Memorial Vineyard) discussing various trips and a hope that they can meet up as well as information about the research at the Wine-Museum regarding correspondence and rootstock trading between American and French viticulturists around the end of the 19th century. In particular, she has found a reference to Munson (enclosed as a photocopy), who received the "Legion of Honor with the title … more
Date: unknown
Creator: Fortier, Marie-Claude
Partner: Grayson College Foundation
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