Strange bookmark found in a book.

[draughtycatflap]

Sitting here waiting for the man to repair my heating and I thought I’d start a new book. It’s an out of print one from the 1970s that I’d been searching for ages. I picked it up and flipped through to find a rather surprising bookmark. I’ll post it a bit later just to keep you all guessing. 😀

I wonder though, have you ever flipped through a book and found something odd, surprising, intriguing or unexpected? I would love to hear about it. 🙂

Sorry @Boomboombroom to you!

I recently found a train ticket with the woman’s name on for Christmas Day 1997. I looked her up and found her online. Didn’t get in touch but had a lovely couple of minutes imagining her Journey.

In theory these bookmarks could indicate a passage which the previous reader wants to share with friends; this could certainly be the case with the OP's postcard!

Where it's a bus-ticket between pages 6 and 7 of an abstruse textbook, I take it as an indication that someone's given up on the book.

Personally, something I've very rarely used as a bookmark is a bookmark. I especially dislike those tassled, leather ones with 'A present from Salisbury Cathederal' in gilt lettering.

@biddybird, I can't remember, but I think it was a cookbook, bought in a second hand book shop in Dublin.

I had always searched for four-leaf clover as a child, so it was quite the thrill when it fluttered out!

A few years ago a friend and I were doing a few car boot sales, and one of her elderly neighbours gave us a load of books.

At the car boot sale, someone picked up a book, opened it, looked shocked, and set it down again and walked away.

We checked the book - elderly neighbour had left an ancient photo of herself inside, in which she was completely naked apart from some strategically placed daffodils!

My grandma left me her leather bound Charles Dickens collection in her will and when I opened them up they had pressed dried flowers in between all the pages of them - hundreds of beautiful flowers she must have picked on her walks over the years. It was a lovely surprise

@haba

Sorry *@Boomboombroom* to you!

Ahhh… It was in a mark billingham book. (Can’t remember which one)

@Blurp

A few years ago a friend and I were doing a few car boot sales, and one of her elderly neighbours gave us a load of books.

At the car boot sale, someone picked up a book, opened it, looked shocked, and set it down again and walked away.

We checked the book - elderly neighbour had left an ancient photo of herself inside, in which she was completely naked apart from some strategically placed daffodils!

That is such a sweet story!

@Boomboombroom ah definitely not mine then, sorry. Would have been awesome if it was
I don't ever read crime. I read for escapism, and my life is grim enough already!

We have been known to buy ahem slightly risque postcards - the ruder the better.

My MIL once borrowed a book from us and when she returned it she said "I don't know if you realise, but you had left one of your photos in it".

It would have been embarrassing enough anyway, but the fact that she thought it was one of our photos gave me the giggles.

[quote haba]@Boomboombroom ah definitely not mine then, sorry. Would have been awesome if it was
I don't ever read crime. I read for escapism, and my life is grim enough already![/quote]
Haha.
Could still be yours…
You could’ve put it in a book, someone else takes the book, moves it into my book and I read the book and keep the 𝕡𝕚𝕘𝕘𝕪 bookmark.

Very true!

I've long been in the habit of using fivers, tenners, £20 and £50 notes as bookmarks, along with Krugerrands, negotiable bonds, Maria Therasa gold thalers, bitcoins, Harry Potter first editions, Confederate currencey...all sorts of things.
Being kind by nature I often lend out books. If by any chance you discover any of the above in a book, please get in touch. If you send the serial numbers of notes I should be able to say straight away if they're mine.

Defaultname

What a coincidence! And how moving x

I found a set of 2 digit numbers written on a page. I took it as a sign and bought a lottery ticket.
Sadly I didn’t win a bean 😂

An old foil packet of what appeared to be cocaine inside a William Burroughs book.

That reminds me of something someone once told me never to google image and I burned my eyes when I did.

I found a ten shilling note in a book about banking!!! - not that long ago.

@Defaultname

I've long been in the habit of using fivers, tenners, £20 and £50 notes as bookmarks, along with Krugerrands, negotiable bonds, Maria Therasa gold thalers, bitcoins, Harry Potter first editions, Confederate currencey...all sorts of things. Being kind by nature I often lend out books. If by any chance you discover any of the above in a book, please get in touch. If you send the serial numbers of notes I should be able to say straight away if they're mine.

I found a signed Picasso drawing in a charity shop copy of 'Metal Detecting and You' (1973 edition). I was going to put it in the recycling, but if it's yours, let me know and I'll pop it in the post.

My husband once found a very old £50 in a book he had purchased from a charity shop.

SomewhatBored, if that's Dennis Picasso, then it's mine.

On its way to you, Defaultname. I've also enclosed the Dead Sea Scrolls, which my husband found in a library-discard biography of Slash from Guns'n'Roses, on the off-chance they're yours as well.

Having read as far as the second clue, I re-read the first 10 guesses and was going with a merkin. I see that the answer has been revealed, so now intend on reading right through to see all the interesting things people have found.

Highly amused by this thread.

DH once bought a secondhand book about a classical composer and inside it he found a handwritten letter from the composer to a friend. He sold it to a dealer for a reasonable amount of money...not a fortune but a pleasant bonus.