TO MY DEAR BROTHER

Reference Number:- Darby Number:- Godden Number:-
sb 2268  352 749
 

 
same bookmark still attached to stiff backing
paper with Stevens printed logo, dated to
the 1875 - 6 period
 
Bookmark with words and motif of a flower
 
 
 
 

  Bookmark with words and motif of a flower
 
Words:
 
 
 
 

TO MY
DEAR
Brother

 
 
 
 
 

image of a flowers

 
 
 
 
 
 

BUT THOU AND I
ARE ONE IN KIND

AS MOULDED LIKE
IN NATURE'S MINT;

AND HILL AND WOOD
AND FIELD DID PRINT

THE SAME SWEET FORMS
IN EITHER MIND.

AT ONE DEAR KNEE
WE PROFFER'D VOWS,

ONE LESSON FROM
ONE BOOK WE LEARN'D,

ERE CHILDHOOD'S FLAXEN
RINGLET TURN'D

TO BLACK AND BROWN
ON KINDRED BROWS.

                     TENNYSON.

 

Size of Silk:
15.2cm long by 4.0cm wide
Alternative back-ground colours:
 
Comments:
Signed: "T.STEVENS COVENTRY" on back at pointed end:

rear of bookmark showing Stevens logo
rear of bookmark showing Stevens logo

 



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new image added 9 December 2007, and replaced 21 October 2014. Image of bookmark attached to stiff backing paper added 24 August 2017 © Peter Daws - Stevengraph-Silks