I saw these three bookmarks for sale on eBay, and while I did not purchase them due to their price and high postage cost (I'm economising), I really like them so have saved them to my digital bookmarks collection to share with you here in my blog. The Health and Cleanliness Council was a voluntary organisation in the UK which produced educational materials, including bookmarks, between the 1920s and 40s, using its logo and motto ‘Where there’s dirt there’s danger’. The Council was responding to a growing realisation at the time regarding individual responsibility in public health. I love how these bookmarks caution about the care of books as well as caring about one's cleanliness and personal hygeine! For example, on the front of the red bookmark is "Do not fold the pages: Use this bookmark instead", and on the back of the bookmark is "Do not moisten your finger to turn over pages. It may spread infection." Yes, indeed to both! The bookmarks also promote some of the Council's books and cards. So, these bookmarks are carriers of lots of information! |
In my internet research, I discovered this poster in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) in London...
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'Discovered these glorious bookmarks and bookmark cards on the internet today, published by Blue Island Press here in Australia. You can view them all 👉🏼 HERE. Blue Island Press supports The Indigenous Literacy Foundation through the sale of the bookmark cards. They donate 5% of the sales each year to the foundation. These are two of my favourite bookmark cards. Must go to one of the stockists and buy them for my bookmark collection. SOURCE: eBay I love this vintage bookmark I found for sale on eBay recently. Great graphics and words by Hardie Gramatky for the Children's Book Council (of America). I did not buy the bookmark (outside of my budget) but I have enjoyed collecting it virtually, here and in my Mark My Place Pinterest page. If you want to see more bookmarks featuring care for books, there are wonderful ones on the International Friends of Bookmarks Care of Books Gallery. In three previous blog posts, I have featured bookmarks from the collections of libraries and museums in various countries. These are bookmarks held by museums, libraries, archives and historical societies. It is so great to see that there are some bookmarks being collected and preserved by our wonderful public institutions. Typically, these bookmarks are donated by people (sometimes famous) as part of their larger donation or bequest of books, documents and other items. You can catch up with, or again read these earlier posts by clicking on the following links: Australia (posted 20 July 2019) Britain (posted 27 July 2019) United States of America (posted 2 August 2019) In this post, I now share some of the bookmarks I have discovered in the collections of public institutions in New Zealand. Click on the institution name to view the bookmark in its original location and to read more about it. 01: Maori chief. (Shows head and shoulders portrait of Maori man with moko and feather cloak). 02: Maori whare, N.Z. Book mark 03: Tomtit (bird), N.Z. National Library of New Zealand Wellington Exhibited October 11-November 13 2013 in the Katherine Mansfield Reading Room, Alexander Turnbull Library, as part of the Katherine Mansfield 125th birthday celebrations. Kathleen Mansfield Murry (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer who was born and brought up in New Zealand. She wrote short stories and poetry under the pen name Katherine Mansfield. National Library of New Zealand Wellington
Mary and Margaret Alcorn opened a shop specialising in 'art furniture and furnishings' in the new Kennedy Building in Lambton Quay in 1906. In addition to importing goods from Liberty's London, the sisters expanded into embroidery and embroidery design in 1921-22, when they moved their shop along Lambton Quay and took over Thomas Pringles 'novelties and fancy goods' shop. This pattern is an example of Mary and Margaret's design work for bookmark. Museum of New Zealand Wellington Sampler book mark; length of red satin ribbon with fringed edges; embroidered either side on strip of white canvas; embroidered in orange and brown; obverse embroidery: Biblical saying: 'And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God to them who are the called according to his purpose'. Romans 8:28; verso embroidery: 'To dear Mrs Benton in grateful remembrance from S F T Nov 1901. "It is a great thing to win love."
Bookmark, 'TEDxEQChCh', 2011. This bookmark was printed for TEDxEQChCh which was a one-day event held in Christchurch on 21 May 2011 'to re-imagine Christchurch as a world-leading city of the 21st century, and to provide inspiration that will directly impact the future of Christchurch'. The day brought together global experts, national leaders, politicians, local business owners, residents, local government, designers, academics, environmentalists and youth leaders to share ideas and visions for Christchurch after the devastating earthquake of 22 February 2011. The bookmark features one of the most commonly said phrases of encouragement in the aftermath of the Canterbury earthquakes: 'Kia Kaha' (be strong / have courage). Museum of New Zealand Wellington I have recently been having fun searching online for bookmarks held by museums, libraries, archives and historical societies. It is so great to see that there are some bookmarks being collected and preserved by our wonderful public institutions. Typically, these bookmarks are donated by people (sometimes famous) as part of their larger donation or bequest of books, documents and other items. Here are a few examples of these bookmarks that I have found so far in some American institutions. Click on the institution name to view the bookmark in its original location and to read more about it.
I have recently been having fun searching online for bookmarks held by museums, libraries, archives and historical societies. It is so great to see that there are some bookmarks being collected and preserved by our wonderful public institutions. Typically, these bookmarks are donated by people (sometimes famous) as part of their larger donation or bequest of books, documents and other items. Here are a few examples of these bookmarks that I have found so far in some British institutions. Click on the institution name to view the bookmark in its original location and to read more about it. British Museum London, UK
Victoria & Albert Museum London, UK Bookmark / Charm (against cholera) made of bamboo, cotton. Burma, C19th. Inscribed in pencil with the initials of the 10 incarnations of the historical Buddha [presumably the ten great Jataka stories]. It was found hanging to the post of a house in Henein village, Paungbyin township, upper Burma as a charm against cholera after a cholera epidemic. - from the Register The shape is reminisent of a traditional book mark (for wrapped manuscripts). British Museum London, UK
I have recently been having fun searching online for bookmarks held by museums, libraries, archives and historical societies. It is so great to see that there are some bookmarks being collected and preserved by our wonderful public institutions. Typically, these bookmarks are donated by people (sometimes famous) as part of their larger donation or bequest of books, documents and other items. Here are a few examples of these bookmarks that I have found so far in some Australian institutions. Click on the institution name to view the bookmark in its original location and to read more about it.
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc. Cowes, Victoria, Australia National Library of Australia. Canberra Museums Victoria
Australia For a few years, I have had an alert set up on eBay so that I know when vintage or antique bookmarks are posted for sale. I also keep an eye out for other bookmarks.
Yesterday, I received an alert for these stunning bookmarks. They are a series of 48 bookmarks called "Affichistes de Siecle" (Posters of the Century), representing the 1900s, and were issued (date unknown) by the Centre de L'Affiche (Poster Museum) in Toulouse, France. Each bookmark features an advertising poster, it's artists name and signature and the date the poster was released. Fabulous! I love them all. Such a great set of bookmarks. The sale price on eBay of AU$192 however, is a little bit out of my available budget at the moment, but at least I can collect the bookmarks digitally for free and share them here for other bookmark collectors to enjoy and perhaps even purchase! Enjoy! PS: Unfortunately, the eBay seller photographed the bookmarks in plastic sleeves so the images are not as clear and crisp as they would otherwise be. Not to worry, we can still enjoy them as they are. Click on each image to enlarge. Wow, these solid silver artisan bookmarks are stunning! Check out the Silverleaf website to view all available bookmarks and to find out how and where they are made. Expensive but gorgeous! Even the way they are packaged is classy.
Here are four of my favourite Silverleaf bookmarks: I have been rendered utterly speechless by this amazing website [now archived], Bookmarks: Infiltrating the Library System, from the University of the West of England, Bristol, which I chanced upon recently! While exploring the website, my mouth has been permanently agape at the wonder and joy of it - the project and its results! Wow, Wow, Wow!!! There is so much to explore! So many stunning bookmarks! So much talent and creativity! Do yourself a favour and explore this wondrous website and all its bookmarks! Here is an explanation of the project from the website.... "This annual series grew out of an aim to encourage appreciation and awareness of artists working in the book format. Participating artists each produce an edition of 100 signed and numbered bookmarks which are divided into 100 sets; one full set being sent to each of the contributing artists and the rest divided and sent in distribution boxes to participating host venues around the world, for visitors to enjoy. Over the last fourteen years, the Bookmarks series of free artwork distribution has visited 148 galleries, bookstores, workshops, centres, schools, museums and libraries in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Singapore, Spain, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the UK and USA 544 artists have contributed 54,700 bookmarks to the fourteen projects to date. Each bookmark is stamped with the current project’s website address, which directs the taker of the bookmark to the gallery section of the website. Visitors can view works by the artists and contact contributors via their website and email links on our site". Here is my favourite story from one of the bookmark artists, together with her poetry bookmark..... "I knew a woman, once, who collected bookmarks. I remember sitting next to her on a flowered sofa while she showed me her albums, full of them, full of them, years and years of gifts and gathering; leather and gilt ones, beribboned and tasselled, ones with pressed flowers, plain and printed ones. Bookmarks from all over, all around the world. And yet I don't remember her reading, for all the bookmarks.
If I use a bookmark, it is usually a feather or a torn scrap of paper, but I often just close the book, assuming I will find my place (and only occasionally, shamefully, leaving the book face down). But one of my favourite things is to have a library book or a second-hand book, and to come all unsuspecting across other people's bookmarks, the traces they leave of themselves. As though in marking their place in the book, they make their own mark upon the page, upon the story and upon the next reader. Did they buy the items on that shopping list, the bread and the light-bulbs and the birthday card? And the bus ticket, where did they go and did they come back again? Who tenderly pressed these flowers or unwittingly trapped a spider? What remains in a book becomes another layer of meaning, a story within the story. What marks the book and what marks the book: the sweet wrappers and seaside postcards and folded till receipts and fringed slips of leather, the scribblings and spilt drinks and smears of old blood and tears and tears and foxing of paper and folding of corners. I like the physical presence of bookmarks, their smallness and modesty, and the way they quietly yet definitely make a pause, their gentle insistence. I like the way that they can be both a particular thing, a proper thing to be bought as such, and used, and collected, and at the same time just any old thing that happens to fit the purpose. And bookmarks also are of that class of things that dwindles now, becoming less than their pleasing slightness as to be no longer so useful, so necessary. Though virtually the concept remains, bookmarks are, as real objects, utterly useless and irrelevant to those who favour kindles or other such reading devices. (So, then, these bookmarks were not made for you. So, then, you can go away, and click a button or whatever other dull method by which you mark your place.) Bookmarks are real, physical, tangible things made for real, physical, tangible and lovely books. They are things to be held, laid down and taken up, used and made worn, lost and found. Small things, slight and slender things, general and particular; what is carefully chosen, what comes to hand. They drift out from an opened book and flutter to the floor, they stay caught in the gutters, they stain the pages with sap and secrets; they can be kept in albums and looked at together in quiet moments and on grey days, when the wind whispers and whispers." - Elizabeth Willow The White House Historical Association has produced an interesting series of bookmarks, including these ones of some of the US Presidents and a First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. Must say I like Eleanor the best - the person and the bookmark!
Really like these feather bookmarks by Momoko. 30 unique watercolour bookmarks in a box! Available on etsy. UPDATE Oh, guess what? After posting this, I decided I liked these bookmarks so much I just had to get a set! I ordered the last set available from the etsy store! Hopefully they will come back into stock! UPDATE #2 They have arrived and they are gorgeous! Love this concept created by Igor “Rogix” Udushlivy, a graphic designer and illustrator, which I discovered today on his icoeye website. The new concept, created by him uses dust jackets and bookmarks together to create a unique image of a book.
Fabulous! All the best with making your concept a widespread reality Igor. Art Deco design is one of my passions, including paper collectables such as bookmarks! I recently borrowed a really great book from the library, "Euro Deco" by Steven Heller and Louise Fili, Thames & Hudson, London (2004) and was very excited to find that it had two pages (p.118 & p. 323) of bookmark reproductions in it; a series of fabulous advertising bookmarks. Here they are for your viewing pleasure! I particularly like the Spanish bookmark series and specifically the "Maderas de Oriente" one. Superb!
Inspired by classic literature such as Moby Dick and 1984, Turkish designer and illustrator Ethem Onur Bilgic created this range of gorgeous bookmarks. The impressive designs highlight important characters and the general feel of the book as a whole.
You can see more photos of these great bookmarks on the Ethem Onur Bilgic website.
VATICAN BOOKMARKS FROM THE VATICAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
While "the Vatican Library is accessible only to scholars as part of an effort to help preserve these rare treasures", everyone it seems can buy the bookmarks! Each Vatican bookmark and money clip comes in a beautiful gift box with the Vatican Library seal imprinted in gold, and a Vatican Library Collection information card. FREE Catholic gifts from Italy and St. Peter postcards included with your Vatican bookmark. Hand-made with the highest quality materials and workmanship. 24k gold-plated, silver, and Swarovski crystals. As a librarian who has received many dog-eared and otherwise damaged books back from borrowers over the years, I really LOVE these bookmarks created and produced by the Hesburgh Libraries of the University of Notre Dame.
As they say on their website... "This set of four bookmarks serves as a playful reminder of the importance and value of our library collections. The messages speak to Notre Dame's strong sense of tradition, with the aim of deepening our collective respect of, and care for, our library collections. The bookmarks are available at service points throughout the libraries; please take a moment to seek one out and enjoy using it to gently mark your spot!"
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the BLOGGERDebrah Gai Lewis lives in Lillian Rock, New South Wales, Australia and is a bookmark collector, yoga teacher and SoulCollage® Facilitator (among other things). ABOUT the blogIn this blog I highlight bookmarks from my collection, feature stories about some of my favourite bookmarks (mine and other people's), and share interesting snippets I find on bookmarks and related topics. Thanks for visiting. Enjoy! BLOG
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