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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."1
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