BOOKMARKS
AN INTERESTING COLLECTION OF VICTORIAN AND 20TH CENTURY EXAMPLES, INCLUDING
£320
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2019 at 12:00 BST
Description
a hand cross-stitched bookmark, 153 x 35mm, celebrating the alliance of the Ottoman, French and British troops during the Crimean War, with the motto "may they ever be united", c.1854; a hand-painted silk bookmark with holly, berries and 'Merry Christmas', 236 x 41mm; an early Victorian advertising bookmark, with a calendar for 1880 to the reverse, for Brown & Polsons patent cornflour, 191 x 51mm; a paper découpage bookmark showing a vase of tulips, 162 x 53mm; 16 Scottish Widows' Fund bookmarks specially designed by Walter Crane; 37 woven, embroidered or printed bookmarks often in silk; and a large quantity of card and leather bookmarks, including many advertising markers; Coysh, A.W. Collecting Bookmarkers, 1974 (c.375 markers)
Footnote
Note: The highlights of this group of bookmarks may be the 20 Stevengraphs - woven silk bookmarks with designs developed by Thomas Stevens of Coventry in the 1860s and 1870s. Coventry was known for its woven silk ribbon industry, which is reflected in one bookmark woven with Tennyson's Godiva and motifs of Lady Godiva and Peeping Tom. The collection also includes Stevens's Remember Me marker, The Old Arm Chair and We promise Thee O God alongside others, many with religious themes.