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<p>[QUOTE="2manycats, post: 9562118, member: 13761"]I cannot believe this was a bookmark. Far too elaborate, with the dual surfaces, and why would you need a portable bookmark? How often does one encounter a book while on-the-go and need to mark one's place in it? This must have been a tool for something we no longer do, pen-wiping, perhaps. Lovely case, though.</p><p><br /></p><p>I further observe that leather left in a book for long periods will discolor the paper, those horrible fringed leather souvenir bookmarks sold at tourist spots being the prime example.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manycats, post: 9562118, member: 13761"]I cannot believe this was a bookmark. Far too elaborate, with the dual surfaces, and why would you need a portable bookmark? How often does one encounter a book while on-the-go and need to mark one's place in it? This must have been a tool for something we no longer do, pen-wiping, perhaps. Lovely case, though. I further observe that leather left in a book for long periods will discolor the paper, those horrible fringed leather souvenir bookmarks sold at tourist spots being the prime example.[/QUOTE]
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