P. N. BODFISH DRY AND FANCY GOODS (1886).
Bookmarker, printed in colours, gold & black on thin cream card; reverse blank; copyright 1886 by L. Prang & Co, Boston. Length 15.4 cm. Width 5.5 cm. More
Bookmarker, printed in colours, gold & black on thin cream card; reverse blank; copyright 1886 by L. Prang & Co, Boston. Length 15.4 cm. Width 5.5 cm. More
Printed in green, yellow & brown on celluloid, with page tab. The bottom edge carries the legend 'David C. Cook Publishing Co., Elgin, Ill.' Length 13 cm. More
(c.1930s-40s), Bookmarker, (c.1930s-40s), printed in colours on white card, with port scene of liner, small craft, and natives and passengers on shore, with advertisements for four shipping lines, and the Athenaeum Library [Melbourne], advising one to 'Read, Mark, Lean and Enjoy that book called life by travel with the world..... More
Bookmarker (c.1920s-30s) printed in red & black on cream paper, with a woodcut portrait of Shelley and a quotation, being the inscription on the decorative frontispiece to volumes in the Poetry & Drama section of Everyman's Library; reverse side carries information about the series (Over 830 volumes). Length 16.6 cm..... More
Bookmarker (c.1920s-30s) printed in red & black on grey paper, with a woodcut portrait of Sir Philip Sidney and a quotation, being the inscription on the decorative frontispiece to volumes in the Fiction section of Everyman's Library; reverse side carries information about the series (Over 880 volumes). Length 16.5 cm...... More
Bookmarker (c. 1925-30) printed in dark brown on cream card, with a horizontal oval view of The Vale of Llangollen, North Wales; reverse side carries the coats of arms of London and Bristol and a description of The Vale of Llangollen. Holiday Haunts Series: Station Llangollen. Length 18.2 cm. *One..... More
Bookmarker (c. 1925-30) printed in dark brown on cream card, with a horizontal oval view of St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall; reverse side carries the coats of arms of London and Bristol and a description of St. Michael's Mount. Holiday Haunts Series; Station: Penzance. Length 18.2cm. *One of at least four..... More
Cream silk-ribbon bookmarker (1901) printed on one side in red & blue with a pair of crossed and draped flags (American and Canadian) above clasped hands and Masonic symbol, with crossed words 'Frank R. Lawrence' in the centre followed by 'Rochester, N.Y. June, 1900. Toronto, Ont. June, 1901'. Length (without..... More
Booksellers and Stationers, 37 Merrimack Street [Lowelle, MA.]. Bookmarker, printed in greens and black on a gold background on thin white card (margin off centre); reverse blank. Length 12.2 cm. Width 5 cm. Verso lightly browned. *One of a series. More
Booksellers and Stationers, 37 Merrimack Street [Lowelle, MA.]. Bookmarker printed in greens and black on a gold background on thin white card (margin off centre); reverse blank. Length 12.2 cm. Width 5 cm. *One of a series. More
Blue silk-ribbon bookmarker (1908) issued at the 'Dedication of the New Bridge, Hartford, Connecticut, October 6, 7, 8, 1908'. Lithographed on one side in black with a frame containing two photographic portraits, presumably of designer and engineer, above a view of the bridge ('Largest Stone Arch Bridge in the World')..... More
Bookmarker (c.1950s), printed in brown, green, red & black on white card, with line drawings of five ships ('Ormonde', 'Orford', 'Orion', 'Orontes' and 'Orsova'), under the heading "EXTENDING A POPULAR SERVICE"; reverse side carries advertisement for Athenaeum Library, Melbourne; with page flap crease at shaped top, slightly creased. Length 19.7..... More
(c.1940s-50s?), printed in dark blue on light blue card, with photograph of The Assembly Hall Building and the heading 'The Home of Good Books' above advertising blurb; reverse side blank. Length 17.6 cm. Width 5.7 cm. Lightly browned at one edge. More
Pale cream cotton bookmarker (c.1880s-1890s) printed in black on one side: For Mayor, [head and shoulder portrait] Chas. S. Ashley. reverse side blank. Length 14.9 cm. (including top edge which may have originally been turned over as a hem). Width 7 cm. This may have started life as an election..... More
Silk bookmarker (1909) with small illustration of the Convention Hall, titled along with the date 'Oct.11-23,'09' within a ribbon banner, and with the main illustration of a large building, followed by the words 'Enlarged Store Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Company', woven in black & grey on a cream ground, the..... More
Silk bookmarker (1874) with a small girl and her cat, with verse, floral decoration at bottom, woven in red, blue, brown, pink, green, & gold, on a cream ground; reverse side has the woven mark 'T. Stevens. Coventry.' and registration symbol for 19 March 1874. Length 16.2 cm. Width 4.1..... More
Bookmarker, printed on both sides in yellow, blue and red on thin white card, with page flap, and quotes from 'The People's Friend, Weldon's Ladies' Journal, and the 'Westminster Budget'; n.d.; Length 11.8 cm. Width 8.3 cm. More
Cream silk-ribbon bookmarker (c. 1880-1910), printed in colours on one side, depicting a gloved hand holding a rose, the bottom edge folded into the traditional bookmarker point with tassel; a trifle soiled. Length (without tassel) 24.5 cm. More
Pink ribbed ribbon bookmarker (c.1870-1880) with large perforated card with deep punched out decorative border and a central punched out cross (card length 19.5 cm. x width 15.4 cm.; ribbon length 36 cm. x width 15.4 cm.). Intended for use in a family bible, the ribbon of this example is..... More
Bookmarker, printed in greens & black on a gold background on thin white card; reverse blank. Length 12.2 cm. More
Silk bookmarker (1914) with a central oval illustration of Passaic Falls, within decorative border, woven in black, green & lavender on a cream ground; reverse side has the woven inscription 'Paterson Industrial Exposition Oct.12-24, 1914/Warner Mfg. Co. Paterson, N.J.' on the top hem, with the bottom being cut into an..... More
Printed in black on thin white card by Fosh & Cross Ltd. with page tab, with a photograph of the British Army over the heading 'MEN OF BRITAIN' (with text); reverse side: BRITAIN AND HER ALLIES ARE RESOLVED ON THIS * * that come what may the menace of a...... More
Bookmarker, (c.1920), printed in blue, red, black & yellow on thin white card with grey border, with page flap, advertising 'The Seal of Health and Purity. Wright's Coal Tar Soap. ul The ulnone Nursery Soap', with a portrait of a child in a locket hung with ribbon from a tablet..... More