"I Love NY." 1983. Folding fan. Paper strip, 13½ cm, 5¼ inches wide; printed in red and black and mounted on 19 balsa sticks (26 cm, 10¼ inches), fastened with a single screw; minor wear and foxing. B. Shackman & Co., New York.
B. Shackman Company, was a manufacturer and wholesaler of vintage-inspired European- and American-made fine paper goods, established in 1898. The store, which moved locations several times over the decades, sold reproductions of vintage valentines, paper masks, mechanical toys, old-fashioned paper dolls, children's books, and souvenirs like this I Love NY fan.
