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We present here the world of bookmarks in selected pictures. updated 27 February 2023
Bookmarks on Bookmarks  See related blog post  
World Bookmark Day designs with bookmarks
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by Asim Maner, founder of IFOB and World Bookmark Day
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by Regina Mačiulytė, Lithuania
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by Ella Watkinson, UK, 30 Jan 2025
The first group is from the collection of Laine Farley, USA
A stock or overprint design used by many bookstores.
A cafe and bookstore with bookmarks on both sides.
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A flying bookmark!
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A tiny bookmark - look closely. 2 January 2022
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The famous Powell's Bookstore included a subtle bookmark on the design for their Chicago location. 2 January 2022
Cozy scenes often show bookmarks
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From Laine Farley
This group of humorous bookmarks features a stack of books with bookmarks peeking out, presided over by bookworms, a mouse and a turtle, all by Antioch Publishing.  27 February 2023
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from Laine Farley
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from Laine Farley
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from Laine Farley
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from Laine Farley
Religious bookmarks showing the bible often illustrate bookmarks.  On the left is a hologram. 
Elizabeth Woodruff sent the examples below of these four Victorian embroidered bookmarks on punched cards.  She said the top example with ""Thy Word is Truth"  at the top was an early purchase and it took me a while to work out that the red worm squiggling out of  the pages of the Bible was a bookmark!  My guess is that it was worked from a design printed in a journal, as I can't see any trace of a design on the card and the colouring is very simple."

Both "The Past is read ... The Future yet to read"  and  "All Scripture is given by Inspiration ...."  are from a series of patterns sold under the ornamental banner heading "BOOK MARKER .......ON PERFORATED CARDBOARD"  (with a complicated monogram between the words).  The fourth, "Do not turn down the (leaves) But use Me (open book, with bookmark down the gutter) Well"  The Book certainly has echos of the one in "All Scripture.." and the fancy capitals with plain lower case for the text are also stylistically similar to it."  Elizabeth has researched patterns for this type of bookmark at the incredible John Johnson Collection at the Bodleian Library.  Added 2 October 2021
This organization tucked a tiny bookmark into a book and even labeled it.  From Laine Farley, donated by Kay Delanoy
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From Laine Farley
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"Every page wiser" from Georg Hartong. And an owl!
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From Laine Farley
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From Laine Farley
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From Laine Farley
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Did monks use bookmarks? From Laine Farley
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From Laine Farley
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"Bookmarks accompany our reading" from Georg Hartong
Examples of bookmarks that talk about the history of bookmarks. 
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A series from Spain, contributed by Laine Farley
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A brief history of bookmarks and says they will issue a series highlighting 19th century bookmarks, from Georg Hartong who says he has never seen any in the promised series.
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A Cultural History of Bookmarks by Prof. Dr. B. Uchstabe (Buchstabe = letter"
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A humorous history. Contributed by Georg Hartong
​"From a biological point of view, the common Bookmark (lat. Signum libri), together with the Bookhound and the Bookworm, belongs in the family of book inhabitants.

This cute little animal was first domesticated in Egypt, when it still roamed the faraway reading corners of our globe, untamed and wild. The famous pharao Tut-Was-Lesen (Reads-a-bit) was even buried with his favourite bookmark.

The Bookmark probably came to Europe during the Migration Period, inside the poetry book of a Barbarian prince. Since then, the Bookmark has been enjoying lots of popularity and high renown in our regions.

It is said that Goethes bookmark inspired him to write his most beautiful works, while another one emigrated to America in the 19th century, where it founded Les Angeles (Lesen - to read).

Bookmarks are quite frugal when it comes to their husbandry conditions. It is absolutely enough to put them in a book from bookstore Riemann from time to time.
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How the Bookmark breeds and raises its young, however, still remains one of the great mysteries of bibliology."
Translation by Aurica Schoen, Germany
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"History of the Bookmark" from Georg Hartong
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"Thematical stories in 7 splendid bookmark" from Georg Hartong
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Produced by Asim Maner; sent to Laine Farley
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Produced by Asim Maner; sent to Laine Farley
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From Laine Farley
The bookmarks by Asim Maner are illustrations of bookmarks produced by his company, Mirage Bookmark. 
This group contributed by Debrah Gai Lewis, Australia
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from Debrah Gai Lewis, Australia
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from Debrah Gai Lewis, Australia
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from Debrah Gai Lewis, Australia
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from Debrah Gai Lewis, Australia
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from Debrah Gai Lewis, Australia
The bookmarks on these bookmarks submitted by Gaby Dondlinger, Luxembourg, get increasingly difficult to find so look closely!
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The bookmark is a miniature version of the bookmark! From Helga Moghaddam 5 May 2022
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This bookmark from Ireland features three bookmarks: one is the tassel at the top and the other two are tiny bookmarks protruding from the books. From Jane Cadwalader Schneider 4 January 2022
Georg Hartong has a collection of bookmarks on bookmarks from swap meetings.  He wrote a post about the history of these meetings in the Netherlands and in France..  
From swap meetings at Leusden near Amersfoort and Nuenen near Eindhoven, 2009 - 2017 with a different theme every year; the final one will take place April 2019--too many collectors died or stopped collecting!
For the swap meetings at Malo-les-bains in France near Calais; I visited these meetings from 2000 - 2013; they do not exist any longer because of the high expenses for security measures related to terrorism.
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From Laine Farley