A large paper advertising fan for 1893, issued by the Dufayel Company of departments stores, Paris and Versailles, a double paper leaf mounted on simple wood, showing a musical gathering, with six months of the year to each side, the saints days marked, the verso a printed black lace of floral design, a reinforced hole at the top centre so that the calendar could be hung, guard approx. 13.75 inches or 75cm. The Paris store opened in 1856 and was considered the best in the lead up to WWI, with 15,000 employees. it boasted a theatre and a winter garden. It closed in 1930.