Strange bookmark found in a book.

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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. 🙂

If the book is a clue, is it a pic of a US politician?

I love these weird book stories. Makes me think of that Anthony Hopkins one where he found a random book on the tube.

In 1974, Anthony Hopkins acted in a film called "The Girl From Petrovka," which was adapted from a novel. Hopkins wanted to read a copy, so he set out to several bookstores to find one. He was unable to find a copy, and on the way home via train, he spotted a book sitting on a nearby bench. The book happened to be a heavily annotated copy of "The Girl From Petrovka." Later on while filming the movie, Hopkins met the book's author, George Feifer. Feifer mentioned that he had lent his own heavily-annotated copy of the book to a friend who later misplaced it. Hopkins then showed Feifer the book he had found and Feifer recognized his own annotations, proving that Hopkins' copy was Feifer's lost book.

Was it a lacy garter?

@ClinkyMonkey

Book from 1970s .... was it a stick from a fondue set? Or a piece of garish orange and brown wallpaper?

No! Loving the idea of a bit of 70s wallpaper! 😀

Is it a playing card with a naughty pic?

[quote DodoApplet]Yes - between the leaves of one of the volumes of an old children's encyclopaedia that used to belong to my father: an autographed flyer for a demonstration by Clem ("The Bird Man") Sohn at Hendon Aerodrome in 1936. My father would have been 13 at the time, and had obviously gone to see him on the Bank Holiday that the event took place. Clem Sohn used to jump out of an aeroplane and float to the ground with a homemade wingsuit. He was tragically killed a year later in Vincennes, France when his parachute failed to open.

[/quote] Wow. What an interesting find!

@diddl

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

What exciting thing is going to be happening then?

I’ve no idea. My husband is dealing with him. 😷

An opened condom wrapper?

A panty liner?

A cartoon?

I once found a large lenticular Pokemon card in a library book, quite exciting as DC were Pokemon age at the time.

@WinterIsGone

You will have to dig for it Mon ami! Following the other guesses, is that a subtle hint for a French letter...???

Far too many of them floating around in books and on this thread I think. No! It is an Agatha Christie reference Mon ami!

A moustache?

An unwrapped unrolled condom?

OK, so the clues so far

• the book is called 'The front runner' (about US politicians)
• something racy
• something in the first 10 posts

But I'm going with a running theme. what about a shoe lace?

A pack of contraceptive pills? I love this thread

I used to live near a rather charming second hand bookshop much beloved of students 20 something years ago
Except at least twice (to my knowledge) people found rather weird bookmarks in their purchases - both times it was a fake card made up to look like the organ donor card but giving permission for necrophilia
Cant seem to find the vomit emoticon here but I feel I need it!

I was never sure how serious or satirical they were, or whether they were put there by previous book owners, other customers or the owner of the shop but it rather damped my enthusiasm for the place

On the subject of the thread
My guess is a mildly risque photo of Princess Margaret wearing only curly wurly bar wrappers, stapled to a slice of bacon and a condom wrapper

@MedusasBadHairDay

Wait.. the book is a clue? After a quick Google I'm going with flyer for a gay club

Well done you’ve got the correct book!

No. It’s not a gay flyer. It’s more of an arty postcard...

Photo of Hercule Poirot?

Maybe a runner's medal?

@parietal

OK, so the clues so far

• the book is called 'The front runner' (about US politicians)
• something racy
• something in the first 10 posts

But I'm going with a running theme. what about a shoe lace?

The title is correct but it is not that film. It is a 1970s published book.

Not a shoe lace.

😂😂😂😂😂 Bacon!

@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.

We did this for a couple of friends (as well as filling their flat with balloons, it took four of us several hours...) anyways, they sadly divorced 25 years later, and when they were sorting through their stuff they were still finding cut out porn in funny places... We obv did a great job!

Something Tom of Finland

Or is the book this one?

The Front Runner by Patricia N. Warren
A gifted gay athelete is threatened with outing on his way to the Olympic games. The classic novel from award winning author Patricia Nell Warren.

A picture, suggestive but not naughty?
CLOSE

Hmmm is it a naughty drawing then???