Bookmark
- Object Name:
- Bookmark
- Object ID:
- 2016.056.18
- Date:
- 1850-1860
- Description:
- Bookmarks, silk. Set of four silk Bible bookmarks. All are decorated with Berlin work.
1. Narrow green silk strip with V-notch in one end. Berlin work with blue checkerboard border and blue lettering "Friendship EPK".
2. Rectangular strip of silk, now pink, probably originally orange. Berlin work with "The Lord is in his Holy Temple." in gold under a worked image of a church in gray, green, brown, black, and white.
3. Rectangular green strip of silk. Berlin work with floral arrangement around a broken column.
4. Rectangular blue strip of silk with scalloped edges and white embroidered clover. Berlin work with blue and gold border, and "My Bible" in blue and yellow script. - Material:
- Textile
Silk
Canvas - Provenance:
- From the Burley-Haley family of Epping, NH. Came with Burley and Haley Family Papers (NHHS Library 2017.078 and 2017.127).
- Credit Line:
- Gift of the Joseph C. and Robert M. Burley Family Trust
- People:
- Burley, Harry B. (1867-1954)
- Subjects:
- Farms, Bookmarks, Books, Reading, Religion, Religious art objects, Religious books, Bibles
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