(EROTICA) Silk mouchoir with 4 sexually explicit images

Sale 2370 - Lot 121

Price Realized: $ 688

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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

(EROTICA)
Silk mouchoir with 4 sexually-explicit images, 3 with a male/female couple, and the last also with a second male. Photograph on silk, overall size 8 3/4x9 inches (22.2x22.9 cm.). Circa 1920

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Apparently these silk mouchoirs, the so-called "whore house hankies," were created to amuse and arouse potential clients in Paris' "maisons close" in the 1920s.