(BUSINESS) Group of advertising fans for a variety of Black

Sale 2663 - Lot 104

Price Realized: $ 812

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

(BUSINESS.) Group of advertising fans for a variety of Black-owned businesses. 22 items, each about 8 x 8 inches, most stapled to a wooden handle about 8 inches long; minor to moderate wear and creasing, a couple with tape repairs. Various places, circa 1960s-1980s?

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These hand-held fans, made by a variety of printers, were created as promotional materials for a variety of apparently Black-owned businesses, all clearly targeted to Black consumers. 14 are for funeral homes, in Missouri, North Carolina, Arkansas, Virginia, Philadelphia, Georgia, and Omaha. Four are for life insurance offices in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Memphis; one is for a service station in rural Pennsylvania; one is for the Bebe & Cece Winans gospel singing duo; one promotes the 1983 Broadway gospel musical "Mama I Want To Sing!"; and the last is for a laundry in White Plains, NY. Some of the fans show the advertised businesses, one shows Jesus Christ, and seven are generic photographs of children. Five depict Martin Luther King, with one each showing Booker T. Washington and Mahalia Jackson. Another shows "Black Leadership in America": 4 Black mayors circa 1969-1971.

With--two Budweiser "Juneteenth: Grand Celebration of Freedom" fans; and a copy-print photograph of an elderly man using a fan much like these.