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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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