Silver Bookmarks

This bookmark is American by Tiffany and Co. It is marked Tiffany and Co. Makers Sterling and the date letter M. The top is a cutout flower design. The date is 1907 - 1947 (directorship of John C. Moore II)

This bookmark was made in the US by the Whitehead and Hoag Company of Newark NJ. It is a celluloid advertising bookmark for The Northern Trust Company of Chicago. The top has a picture of the bank building and the blade has information about the bank and the interest rates for savings and checking accounts. The back has a calendar for the year 1907. The bookmark is shaped like a key.

This bookmark was made in the US by an unknown manufacturer. The top blade, in the shape of a leaf is inscribed LPW. The very top has leaves and a crown.

This bookmark is a William B. Kerr piece. It has the American Beauty hallmark and is stamped Sterling 10. The date is 1900 - 1910

This bookmark is one of a set of 4 from Cracker Jack. It is made of tin and paint depicting a Scotty dog. It was made it the 1940's.

This bookmark is Mexican. It is marked Silver Mexico. It has a small turquoise piece at the top. Date is unknown.

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 is marked Sterling with the makers hallmark. It was made by R. Blackington & Co. circa 1900. I have two of these bookmarks. On one of them, the hallmark is on the front, and the other has the hallmark on the back. One was a goof. But which one?