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Welcome to Gallery 8
Bookmarks Representing Countries
updated 5 May 2022

This gallery presents bookmarks representing countries around the world.  Members may send bookmarks for their country.  Some ideas: 
  • famous or unusual places
  • well-known artists, writers or other creative people
  • national museums or libraries
  • materials that are identified with your country; historic events.
  • you may think of other themes that are especially evocative of your country.
.  We want to have at least one bookmark representing all 39 countries of our members but welcome examples from any country.  Send yours to ifobeditor .  Updated 1 February 2021

AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺 🇦🇺  🇦🇺 
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Libraries Australia's Heritage #1 from Debrah Gai Lewis
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Libraries Australia's Heritage #2 from Debrah Gai Lewis
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Libraries Australia's Heritage #3 from Debrah Gai Lewis
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Canberra from Debrah Gai Lewis
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Sydney Opera House from Debrah Gai Lewis

CANADA 🇨🇦 🇨🇦  🇨🇦 
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"Anne of Green Gables", the novel, from Randy Whiteman
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Niagara Falls Tower from Randy Whiteman
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Canadian National Hotels from Randy Whiteman
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Canada Steamship Lines from Randy Whiteman

GERMANY 🇩🇪 🇩🇪 🇩🇪  updated 5 May 2022
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Map of Germany with neighboring countries from Helga Moghaddam
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Part of the Rhine River from Mainz north to Köln / Cologne from Helga Moghaddam
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Cologne and "Eau de Cologne": a passage way at the flagship store of "Eau de Cologne 4711" from Helga Moghaddam
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Panoramic view of the city Cologne, with the cathedral "Kölner Dom" from Helga Moghaddam
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Graffiti painted on the Berlin Wall
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The sign says "Attention, here you are leaving West-Berlin".
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Graffiti painted on the Berlin Wall
Impressions of the "Berliner Mauer" (Berlin Wall), with an original small piece of the wall. At the top titled "Berlin, die Mauer - the wall - le mur, original stone of  Berlin wall"
   
 The wall between East Germany and West Germany existed from August 1961 till November 1989. At the beginning it was barbed wire, but later it was a solid concrete wall.  On the west side the wall could be used  as canvas, and was painted over and over with graffiti. Some of them are really works of art.

 When the wall was opened and pulled down, it was not only an official governmental  act, but also people  demolished and broke it up, taking pieces away for souvenirs.
 
​Parts of the wall are installed as historic monuments, and also at places outside of Germany.  And some people had the wise idea to use small pieces of it for bookmarks.  - From Helga Moghaddam
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German Parliament from Aurica Schoen
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German Parliament - reverse from Aurica Schoen
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Bookshop Thalia advertising the European Championship from Aurica Schoen
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Bookshop Thalia advertising the European Championship from Aurica Schoen
LITHUANIA 🇱🇹 🇱🇹 🇱🇹 updated 16 January 2023
Gintautas Deksnys contributed this collection to celebrate Lithuania's Freedom Defenders Day, 13 January. Some of them depict his town of Kaunas. 16 February 2023
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MALAYSIA 🇲🇾 🇲🇾 🇲🇾 updated 3 December 2021
​Member Michelle Woo's students created bookmarks depicting Malaysian legends. 
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    • Gallery Page 3 - New Year's
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    • Gallery Page 7 - Woboda Bookmarks
    • Gallery Page 8 - Countries
    • Gallery Page 9 - Bookmarks Speak
  • Library
    • Reading Room
    • Book Reviews
    • Bookmark Quotes
    • IFOB Publications >
      • Earliest History of Bookmarks
      • Diamond Registration Marks on British Bookmarks
      • World Literature Classics
      • Holiday Haunts Bookmarks of the Great Western Railway
      • Reprints of the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games Bookmarks
      • Fascinating Bookmarks
      • Traditional Costumes of Countries - A bookmark Series by Rowohlt Verlag
      • Charting the Course of Celluloid Bookmarks
  • Bibliographies
  • Workshop
  • Events
  • Links
  • Bookmark Producers