Silver Bookmarks

This bookmark was made in the US by Webster Co. It is only marked sterling. It is in the shape of a heart with a picture of a woman in the center. The date is 1913.

This bookmark was made in the US by Shiebler. It is marked with the manufacturers hallmark. The top, and top blade is a figural flower. The date is 1900 - 1910.

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?

This bookmark was made in the US by an unknown manufacturer. It is made of Abalone shell. The date is unknown.

This bookmark was made in the US by F. F. Pulver Co, of Rochester, NY in 1904. It is a celluloid advertising bookmark for Fairchild Bros. & Foster for their Digestive Ferments products. The top is a picture of a butterfly. The back says "Panopepton, Fairchild's essence of Pepsine, Peptonising Tubes, Peptogenic Milk Power, Enzymol, Lecithin."

This bookmark was made in the US by the Heintz Art Metal Shop between 1910 - 1930. It is an Arts and Crafts design with a silver design on the top and a green florentine patina over brass. It is unmarked.

This bookmark is made in Japan between 1890 - 1910. The top has a basket with a crab climbing up and a red silk string.