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(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

/

4

x9 inches (22.2x22.9

cm.). Circa 1920

[600/900]

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.

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