Cutout advertising bookmark from 1930s published by the Italian insurance company Compagnia Assicurazione di Milano
      
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233 total members from 39 countries; ​121 on the Swap page; updated 2 February 2021
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Planted bookmark in Lithuania
Celebrated on 25 February  🔖 📖 📚 
Vilija Jocienė celebrates in Lithuania with "planted" bookmarks.  25 February 2021
Carole Lemieux designed a special bookmark for Woboda. 24 February 2021
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Woboda bookmark by Carole Lemieux
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Printable Woboda bookmarks from Jane Schneider
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The Bookmark Society has provided pdf copies of the first 7 Occasional Papers on our Bibliography page. 14 August 2020
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Georg Hartong's Bibliography and his index of TBS News updated 19 December 2020
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Member Profile Clemens Posten, Germany, 7 May 2020
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Member Profile: Olav Claassen, Netherlands 25 April 2020
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Charting the Course of Celluloid Bookmarks by Laine Farley 20 October 2020; updated 9 February 2021
The Owl Gallery has eight new bookmarks from Germany and five new celluloid examples. 28 January 2021
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World Bookmark Day designs from 2017-2020 - 24 March 2020
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New examples from Canada and Germany in the Countries Gallery. 1 February 2021
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A poem about bookmarks on a bookmark! 31 March 2020
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IF, a UK company that produces a range of bookmarks sold to retailers. 18 June 2020
The Trade Card Place has been added to our Links page in the Non-bookmarks section.  It is an excellent site for information on Victorian trade cards used to advertise American goods and has information on many of the same companies that produced bookmarks during this period.   12 January 2020