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No. 10 Acquired 2020-2021, created soon before.

I love this bookmark. It's looks good, is pretty sturdy and is of great construction. The decorative paper that covers it feels great and I have a feeling (although I will not risk testing it) that it's fairly water resistant, at least as far as paper bookmarks go. The size, shape and thickness are great for its purpose, and the ribbon is attached well, tied loosely but securely inside of a brass grommet. The ribbon, while granting it a break in the uniformity of the print, can get in the way sometimes, but still way less than if it were a larger tuft or thicker ribbon. If my collection was a collection of the best bookmarks, and not just any and all bookmarks, this one would definitely be in it.

No. 9 Acquired winter 2018-spring 2019, created soon before.

I got this bookmark at the gift store of a solar observatory in Northern Italy, during a school field trip.

It's holographic on the front, and it displays the 8 planets and the Sun of the Solar system, ordered by distance from the Sun. In the background of the picture it shows the Milky Way, that shifts when viewed from different points of view, along with the names of the planets. On the back it has a chart with the avg diameter at the equator, mass, avg density, avg gravitational acceleration at the equator, length of day, synodic day, avg distance from the Sun and orbital period of the various planets of the solar system.

No. 8 Acquired winter 2020, created soon before.

I bought this card stock bookmark from a Rizzoli bookshop in Milan, and I thought I had slightly more cash on me than I had, and so my friends had to lend me a train ticket. And I don't even really like this bookmark!

The front is mostly blank except for the framing and two small drawings of butterflies and a slightly larger one of a branch with leaves and flowers. The back is the same except for a few lines for taking notes and the drawings are arranged slightly differently.

No. 4 Acquired october 2018, created soon before.

I got this bookmark from the 28th international contemporary art exhibition at Miniartextil in 2018. The theme was the word "Humans." Miniartextil features a large collection (just over 3000 as of writing this) of so-called "Minitextiles," small artworks made with textile techniques.