As a book collector, okay, hoarder, I find some strange and bizarre bookmarks. My favorite was a laminated lock of baby hair. My most disgusting discovery? I'm not telling unless you ask!
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Re: Found any interesting bookmarks?
Fri, August 12, 2005 - 7:09 PMLOL that's funny! Did you find it inside the book, or for sale?
I just use business cards for bookmarks. They're free, and I don't care if I lose them.
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Fri, August 12, 2005 - 8:05 PMIn any group of librarians someone always has the (possibly aprocryphal) story of the bacon-strip-bookmark.
I can't think of odd bookmarks found, but coming across people's handwritten notes in books (sometimes on bits of paper that *might* have been a bookmark) always feels intensely voyeuristic to me ...
What was the most disgusting discovery?? Tell, please tell! -
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Sat, August 13, 2005 - 8:18 AMThere's a book out about the notes people write in their books. I haven't read it yet, but the review sounded interesting. I believe it's called "Marginalia". -
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Sat, August 13, 2005 - 11:16 AMI'll look for it! Tks.
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Sat, August 13, 2005 - 8:17 AMI haven't found many. One of the best was a leather gold-leaf stamped bookmark with about a dozen versions of the cross on it with all their names (Greek Orthodox, St. Andrews, etc.). Very funny, given that I'm very involved in my SM community and I've seen most of the designs as furniture in various playspaces.
I've also found greeting cards with handwritten notes and recipies on them tucked away in old cookbooks.
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Mon, January 2, 2006 - 11:17 AMI literally have thousands: betting slips, tissues, Dear John letters, business cards, etc. I think the most interesting I've found in the last few months were a dozen or so safe-conduct passes from the Republic of South Vietnam. I called a militaria collector, and he told me that crates of these were dumped over enemy lines in an attempt to get the VC to surrender. "Of course, they put a gun to their heads anyway, so it was pretty superfluous." They're very colorful, though.
Another find was a one-peso note issued by the Japanese Government for use in the occupied Philippines!
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Sun, January 15, 2006 - 2:58 PMI have a shoeboxful. i like the ones from old NW bookstores, there's so many that don't exist anymore. And a few artistic ones--I like the delicate ones, with flowers pressed inside thin laminate or wax paper.
--VR
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Tue, May 2, 2006 - 6:21 AMThe most unique thing I ever found in a book was a Confederate dollar bill. Grossest was probably a piece of dental floss that may or may not have been used before being given a second purpose in life.
I collect bookmarks - promotional bookmarks, bookmarks printed up by great little independent bookshops... I have TONS of them. Didn't keep the floss, though.
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Tue, October 24, 2006 - 4:22 PMPlane tickets...either mine, which remind me of where I was going whenI finished the book last time, or someone else's. -
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Wed, October 25, 2006 - 3:26 AMI have begun making my own with my birthday present of a lamanating machine. I'm getting pretty good but learnt the hard way that you can't lamanate wet paint.....ends badly. -
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Sun, April 29, 2007 - 12:24 PMa receipt for a photo developer in milan. that one was pretty neat.
I made my own by laminating a piece of a map of florence...it is my favorite!
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Mon, April 30, 2007 - 7:10 AMMy grandfathers business card. He died in the 1970's and the business had been sold in the 1960's
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Mon, July 14, 2008 - 11:17 PMmmm...I've got one with a holographic shark in it. I put it in THE GREAT SHARK HUNT, by Hunter S. Thompson.
