I have been collecting book marks since 2005, I specialise in vintage bookmarks - anything pre 1950. I love the old Stevengraph silk bookmarks but they are rare and expensive. Stevens and other silk ribbon weavers of Coventry in England, produced bookmarks that depicted pictures of famous people, places and events from the mid 1800's. Cash’s (the makers of woven name tags) are still producing similar bookmarks today. By the early 1900’s, bookmarks had become a valuable advertising tools. Cheap and easy to produce in thin card, they were given away with all manner of products from insurance policies to food. They were easily crafted as hand made gifts for birthdays and christmas and fashioned in gold and silver for the wealthy. The range these days is enormous - besides the standard card bookmarks there are leather, celluloid film cells from actual movies, vellum, plastic, beaded, woollen, wooden, embroided, tapestried, flower pressed and many more. I have examples of all of these.
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