Posted by Jim Lewis (173.189.0.51) on June 13, 2011 at 16:13:04:
In Reply to: an antique japanese fan ? posted by Frédéric S. on June 12, 2011 at 17:58:19:
In the real world, the useful life of fans is very brief, and they begin to show wear and tear soon after that begin to be used.
This one shows no signs of use at all -- which could be OK if it was by an artist whose work was automatically valuable and was bought and stored away for future resale. Those, however, would have been signed.
I think you can assume this is quite new.