Silver Bookmarks

This bookmark was made in the US for The Jewelry Shop in New York. It is a celluloid advertising bookmark with a red flower on top. The back is a list of every month and the birth stone and a word for the month. The date is 1900 - 1910.

This bookmark was made in the US by Gorham. It is marked with the manufacturers hallmark and 14. This is one of the 33 bookmarks from the Autumn 1888 Gorham catalog. The handle and top blade have a array of flowers and leaves. The date is 1888.

This bookmark was made in the US by Unger Bros. It is a two piece bookmark with a flower bud on one side and a blossomed flower at the other side of a purple silk ribbon. The full flower side clips over the binding of a book. It is marked with the manufacturers mark on each piece. 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 was made in France around 1900 - 1910. It is unmarked but was tested to be sterling. The top blade has a picture of Iris flowers.

This bookmark is made in England. I think it's from London with a V date mark. The hallmark is JBLD. It is probably a recent bookmark but the dealer said it was from the 1960's.

This bookmark was made in the US by W.H. Saart Co. It is marked Sterling Front and the manufacturers hallmark. The top is an art nouveau lady head and the date is 1900 - 1910.

This bookmark is made in the US by an unknown manufacturer. It marked only sterling on the back. The top is the German Iron Cross of 1914. The date is 1930 - 1950.