Silver Bookmarks

This bookmark is American made by Unger Brothers. The mark is an interlaced U and B. It has an art nouveau design on top with a plain silver blade.

This two piece bookmark has an engraved charm marked on the front E.G. L. from F.H.P., and on the back XMAS '94. A white satin ribbon is attached to both parts. The blade is a gold color metal with ornate scroll work and a diamond etched finish.

This bookmark was made in the US by The Whitehead and Hoag Co. of Newark, NJ. It is a celluloid advertising bookmark for Maltine. The back reads "Maltine plain, maltine with coca wine, maltine with cod liver oil, maltine with cascara sagrada, maltine with hypophosphites, maltine with wine of pepsin, maltine with creosote, malto-yerbine, maltine ferrated, maltine with peptones, maltine with phosphate iron, quinia and strychnia, maltine with pepsin and pancreatin." The date is 1905 - 1915.

This bookmark was made in the US byF.A. Hermann Co. It has a hallmark on the back along with the word sterling. The top and the inner blade are finished in white enamel with flowers. The date is 1900 - 1910.

This bookmark was made in the US by an unknown manufacturer. It is silverplate over brass and depicts an art nouveau lady head with a bird and flowers. The date is 1900 - 1910.

This bookmark was made in the US by the Whitehead and Hoag Co. of Newark NJ. It is a celluloid advertising bookmark with acarnation flower on top and advertising Jones Piano Co in Des Moines, Iowa. The back dates this piece at August 1, 1912 as a gift.

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 at the Gebruder Schmidt factory in Oberstein, Germany. Thank you to @Lsmayergal (The World of LS Mayer) on Instagram and Facebook for the identification and dating of this piece. It has two crossed golf clubs with an agate marble between them on the top.