Bookmark Collector

This morning, Harriet and I are departing on vacation for 3 weeks. We will be in Malaysia, and well see what bookmarks we find.
I’ll return with another post just after Thanksgiving. Take care.

One of the reasons I love collecting bookmarks is that for me, they often come with a story. This is the story of two of my bookmarks.
Last year, Harriet and I traveled to Madagascar. It was a wonderful trip, and the wildlife is quite unique and spectacular.
Paper making is a cottage industry in parts of [...]

That series of articles by Deanna Dahlsad continues to be really interesting. In the latest entry, Curator of Your Own Museum: Part II, she discusses defining the purpose of your collection. Her point is that a museum curator asks and answers a set of questions that define the scope, focus, and goals of the collection. [...]

Now that I’ve had a chance to do some initial organizing, it’s time to really start sorting. I spent a long Saturday sorting through all of the bookmarks while watching some videos. All of the larger, three dimensional bookmarks were collected into separate drawers, and all of the paper and thin material bookmarks into [...]

I just wanted to mention why I’ve been gone for awhile. Last Tuesday morning (3:00 am) we had a very odd power surge (it involves a slow growing palm tree and an odd sequence of events). That resulted in all of our computers blowing out, along with a variety of electronic devices. It’s odd how [...]

This month I participated in the bookmark exchange sponsored by the Collecting Bookmarks group from Yahoo. This was my first exchange, so I didn’t know exactly what to expect. I signed up to exchange two sets of five free bookmarks and one handmade bookmark. Natalia from the group takes the names of everyone who signed [...]

Deanna Dahlsad has started a series of articles that follow up on her discussion of the personal collection as museum. In Curator of Your Own Museum: Part One, she takes the U.S. Department of Labor’s definition of a curator and breaks it down into three steps of collecting. For a bookmark collector:

Acquisition: which is pretty [...]

Where do you start organizing an accumulation of hundreds (with duplicates, thousands) of bookmarks? For me, it was getting the paper bookmarks separate from the rest and putting them into some form that I can sort through.
In a previous post, I mentioned the Negative Preservers. They’re clear, with four envelopes to a page. It’s easy [...]

I bought this bookmark two weekends ago at an estate/yard sale.
It’s Chinese and made from wood, although I don’t know what type. The size is 1 x 3 15/16 inches (25 x 100 mm) It’s nicely painted with two birds on bamboo. There are several Chinese characters in the upper right. It also has an [...]

After collecting all of my bookmarks into one area, my next step is to try and organize them. The biggest part of my collection (in terms of numbers) are the paper bookmarks. In many ways they provide the most confusion because of the sheer number of them all, and because there are so many duplicates.
I’m [...]