FORGET ME NOT

same bookmark, with different
coloured background, and
attached to stiff
backing paper of the 1870 - 73 period
 
 
 

same bookmark, attached to stiff
backing paper from the World's
Columbian Exposition, 1893
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
FORGET
ME NOT

FORGET THEE? - BID THE SUN FORGET
TO RISE WITH GOLDEN RAY,
FORGET THEE? -
BID THE SILVER MOON
SHINE NOT AT CLOSE OF DAY,
WHEN IN THE CLEAR BLUE
VAULT OF HEAV'N
THESE GLORIOUS ORBS ARE NOT,
THEN, BUT I PROMISE
NOT TILL THEN,
BY ME THOU'LT       BE FORGOT.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

image of a blue forget-me-not flowers
with scroll on which words:

REMEMBER ME

 
 

23.5cm long by 5.0cm wide

 

Signed: "T.STEVENS COVENTRY" on back at pointed end:

This bookmark also includes a woven Registration Mark for the date 21 July 1873

Stevens logo and diamond registration mark on the reverse pointed end of this bookmark		DAY: 21
	BUNDLE: 4		YEAR: F {1873}
		MONTH: I {July}