Silver Bookmarks

This bookmark was made in Italy by the Anri workshop. It is carved of wood and depicts a woman.

This bookmark is made in Birmingham, England by Mitchell Brothers. It has the associated hallmarks for this. It is in the shape of a trowel with a mother of pearl handle. The date is 1888.

This bookmark was made in the US by R. Blackington & Co. It is marked Sterling and the manufacturers hallmarks. It is a very plain bookmark and appears to be of recent vintage but the hallmark is an old one dating from 1900.

This bookmark was made in the US by The Whitehead and Hoag Co. of Newark, NJ. It is a celluloid advertising bookmark for Carnation Milk and a souvenir of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco 1915. The top is a carnation flower and the bottom has a picture of cows and a can of Carnation Milk.

This bookmark was made in the US by Unger Brothers between 1904 and 1914. It is marked with the interlaced U and B hallmark and Sterling 925 Fine. The top is a peacock whose legs form the top blade.

This bookmark was made in England. It is a piece of Tunbridge Ware. "Tunbridge ware is a form of decoratively inlaid woodwork characteristic of the spa town of Tunbridge Wells in Kent in the 18th and 19th centuries. The decoration typically comprises a mosaic of many very small pieces of different coloured woods that form a pictorial vignette. Shaped rods and slivers of wood were first carefully glued together, then cut into many thin slices of identical pictorial veneer with a fine saw. Elaborately striped and feathered bandings for framing were pre-formed in a similar fashion." The date is 1880 - 1900.

This bookmark was made in France by an unknown manufacturer. It is a colorful enamel and brass cloisonne piece know as Battersea. The date is 1900 - 1910.

This bookmark was made in Holland and has a man carrying water buckets on the top. The mark on it is a sword tilted slightly to the left. This inicates the fineness of the silver to be between .934 and .833. The mark was used until 1953.