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. 🙂

I found a dried four-leaf clover once, was delighted!

An old £1 note?!

old crisp packet?....I'm just putting anything really so I don't lose the thread. Dying to find out what it was (yes, this is as exciting as my life gets at the moment).

I found an old photo of someone's cat in a charity shop book once.

I used to be a librarian and we found all sorts of things used as bookmarks including bacon just like a pp, underwear, lettuce leaves, nude Polaroids, receipts, tickets, Christmas tags, string, money.

@chocatoo

old crisp packet?....I'm just putting anything really so I don't lose the thread. Dying to find out what it was (yes, this is as exciting as my life gets at the moment).

This is as exciting as it gets here too. Until the heating man arrives...

@Whenwillow

I found an old photo of someone's cat in a charity shop book once.

Awww... 🐈‍⬛

I opened a second hand book to read in bed and lots of sand fell out and a postcard from Barbados... so must have been Bajan sand!
All in my bed though 🙄

Sand is it sand???

I found an invite to the opening of the Severn bridge in a second hand book once, I still have it.

@EBearhug

When I was working in a library - a slice of cooked bacon.

At least it was cooked- the one I found when I was a library assistant was raw!

My DH's stag do ended up at our flat and one of the stags had brought cut-out pictures from a porn magazine to hide around the place, and which I kept on finding for about two years afterwards. They were in books, in packs of cards, inside photo frames... for all I know there might still be one inside a book over 20 years later.

I've found lovely photos of someone's dogs on a beach and a calling card from Lady [forget], advising of her change of address.

@billybagpuss

I found an invite to the opening of the Severn bridge in a second hand book once, I still have it.

Was it from Isambard? 😀

I found ticket stubs to a basketball game in Texas (or Colorado?) in a book my colleague passed on to me from her children to mine!

A Spanish lottery ticket from 1996 (in 2020).

@Giggorata

Kraft cheese slice

Ugh. I did genuinely find this once in a uni textbook. It was rather grim.

@Covert19

My DH's stag do ended up at our flat and one of the stags had brought cut-out pictures from a porn magazine to hide around the place, and which I kept on finding for about two years afterwards. They were in books, in packs of cards, inside photo frames... for all I know there might still be one inside a book over 20 years later.

How 1950's of the stag. I wouldn't have been impressed with that

A printout of a Mills and Boon book cover in a children's book from the library

@Tangledtresses

I opened a second hand book to read in bed and lots of sand fell out and a postcard from Barbados... so must have been Bajan sand! All in my bed though 🙄

Sand is it sand???

I love that story! Did the book smell of ozone and suntan oil and steamy beach sex! 😂

@draughtycatflap didn't he die before it was finished? Off to Google that.

I found a receipt for the book - it was at an 'Evening With The Author' event. I know, because I was at the same event all those years ago!

@Shaniac

Money? I once found a Russian banknote and also a love letter in 2nd hand books.

That's quite romantic - was the love letter in Russian as well?

my mobile phone ended up in my ds's classroom as it found its way into his school reading book

My marriage certificate. I wondered where it had gotten to.

A receipt from a “ladies’ outfitters” dated 1936. It was handwritten and the customer had bought a pair of stays and a packet of towels. It came to something like 39/11d (for those of you who may know old money).