Silver Bookmarks

This bookmark was made in France between 1890 - 1910. It is made of bronze d'ore and is known as a Battersea style. It has colorful enamel on the top blade and a cutout design on the bottom blade.

This bookmark is English made. The manufacturer's hallmark is MCH inside a club figure (like the suit of cards). The date letter is a V indicating 1995. It is an egg shape in the image of Humpty Dumpty.

This bookmark was made in the US by an unknown manufacturer. It is marked sterling front. The top two overlapping flowers. The date is 1900 - 1910.

This bookmark was made in the US by an unknown manufacturer. It is marked sterling on the back. The top is an enamel picture of purple flowers framed in an octagon shaped border of sectioned pink enamel. The date is 1900 - 1910

This bookmark is made in the US by Webster Co. It is marked sterling on the back. The top has a picture of holly. Date is 1913 and was sold as a letter opener and as part of a novelty set.

This bookmark is made in the US by Unger Bros. It is marked with the manufacturers hallmark on the back. The top is a flower. The date is 1900 - 1910.

This is an American made bookmark. The manufacturer is Gorham. It is marked with the manufacturers hallmark, Sterling and the catalog number 15. It large and heavy for a bookmark. It has the picture of a feather. It's nicely detailed. It is from the Autumn 1888 Gorham Catalog. It is one of 33 different bookmarks offered that year.

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.