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824 few have been made to order as dear as ten and fifteen dollars each. The general prices of ordinary fans range from fifty sen per one hundred to fifteen yen per hundred, though an extraordinarily costly fan is turned out at fifty yen per hundred. The number of fans ordered for the Philadelphia Exhibition alone amounted to over eight hundred thousand, at a cost of about fifty thousand dollars. The sale of fans in olden times seldom exceeded ten thousand a year for the whole country.

 

 