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A depiction of a woman playing with an early form of the yo-yo, or "Bandalore" (as it was called in England then), from a French fashion journal, 1791.

The most common French word for Yo-yo at the time was "Emigrette", but it is called the "Joujou de Normandie" in a caption to a version of this image which was included in Albert Charles Auguste Racinet's Le Costume Historique (1888).

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A woman playing with an early form of the yo-yo
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A woman playing with an early form of the yo-yo
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A depiction of a woman playing with an early form of the yo-yo, or "Bandalore" (as it was called in England then), from a fashion journal, 1791.

The most common French word for Yo-yo at the time was "Emigrette", but it is called the "Joujou de Normandie" in a caption to a version of this image which was included in Albert Charles Auguste Racinet's Le Costume Historique (1888).
Depicted people A woman
Date 1791
date QS:P571,+1791-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source/Photographer Usually claimed to be from a French fashion journal (no further details given). Published in the German Journal des Luxus und der Moden (October 1791). [1]

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