Functional object - Bookmark, With Best Wishes

Significance

E. Bollans & Co were manufacturers of woven silk materials using the jacquard loom as had Stevens and others in Coventry and were based in Leamington England. Like Stevens and Cash's, their bookmarks were popular in the late nineteenth century and the Australian colonies being British, were also a good market.

Inscriptions & markings

On the selvige turnover, E. Bollans & Co Leamington.

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