AUSTRIAN BRISE' FAN, OF PRINTED PASTEBOARD WITH BALSA WOOD GUARD STICKS. DURING THE 1ST WORLD WAR TWO SIMILAR FANS WAS PRODUCED, ONE IN MILAN AND THE OTHER IN AUSTRIA. THEY WERE SOLD AT RED CROSS CHARITY BALL TO COLLECT FUNDS FOR THE SOLDIERS AT THE FRONT. THAT ONE I OWN, HOWEVER, IS A FURTHER VARIANT (SEE SVOBODA 1995 P. 48, N. 93): THE LOGO OF AUSTRIAN RED CROSS IS OVAL, IT HAS 15 STICKS AND NOT 18, AND ITS SIZE IS BIGGER. ON RECTO WE CAN SEE THE FIELD-MARSHALS AND GENERALS PORTRAITS, SUCH AS BOROEVIC, CONRAD, PAUL VON HINDENBURG, THE GRAND DUKE JOSEPH FERDINAND OF ASBURGO-LORENA, THE KAISER WILLIAM II OF GERMANY AND THE EMPEROR FRANZ JOSEPH WITH THEIR SIGNATURES, INVERTED COMPARED TO THE OTHER EXEMPLAR. ON VERSO, IMITATION BALSA WOOD, AN AUTOGRAPH WRITING: "REMEMBERING THE HOLY CHRISTMAS 1916, TO MISS JUTTCHEN. RIES. LASZLO VON POKORNY". IN THE MIDDLE THE PRODUCER ADDRESS: "GESETZL.GESCHUTZ.....WIEN". BAKELITE BUTTON. METAL LOOP. CM 26. MAX SPREAD CM. 48,5. STICKS 13 + 2.