Buy your own cherries

(writing in serif)

Reference Number:-	Darby Number:-	Godden Number:-
sb 470	67	386

same bookmark, but
with different coloured
writing on lower half

same Thomas Stevens bookmark, with difference colours in word layout

Words:

BUY YOUR OWN
CHERRIES

image of juicy red cherries

THE MORAL OF THE
TALE IS THIS,
AND DON'T FORGET IT,
WORKING FRIEND:
'TIS NOT SO MUCH
WHAT YOU CAN EARN,
AS WHETHER YOU
WILL WISELY SPEND.

image of man
helping himself to cherries from a plate,
and a lady chastising him.

LEARN THIS, IF
NOTHING ELSE YOU LEARN,
COMMENCE AT ONCE,
THE TEMPERANCE PLAN,
FOR, IF YOU'D HAD A
"HOME, SWEET HOME"
YOU MUST
"BUY YOUR OWN CHERRIES"
MAN.
COPYRIGHT

Very unusually for Thomas Stevens, there are two versions of this bookmark, identical in design and words, but with different font styles and size. One, above, is in serif, whilst the other [sb468 on this site] is in sans serif.
Below, the two bookmark images have been adjusted to be the same length, top to bottom, so the differences can be identified easily.

bookmark above,
writing in serif
same Thomas Stevens bookmark, with difference in word layout

bookmark sb468
writing in sans serif
Words and image of man helping himself to cherries and lady chastising him

<----size of font

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<---closer to edge

Size of Silk:	cm long by cm wide
Alternative back-ground colours:	white
Comments:	Signed: "T.STEVENS COVENTRY" on back at pointed end: This bookmark has a Diamond Registration mark woven on the back, and, although someone has written in the four segments, this diamond was in reality woven incomplete. Stevens logo, and incomplete Diamond Registration mark woven on reverse of this bookmark.

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This page was created on 4 May 2009
additional image added with different coloured writing, and wording revised on 8 April 2016

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