Name of Object:

Bookmark

Name in original language:

Segnalibro

Location:

Gerano, Rome, Italy

Holding Institution:

The House of Antique Tin Boxes

 About The House of Antique Tin Boxes, Gerano

Holding Institution (original language):

La Casa delle Antiche Scatole di Latta

Date of Object:

1911

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Cardboard

Provenance:

Italy

Description:

Gadget having scimitar shape distributed by a Company producing Talmone Chocolate and presented during the International Exhibition of Turin in 1911. The bookmark is part of an advertising using an Egyptian exotic style, which was very common in those years.

Type of Object

Bookmark

Citation of this web page:

Marina Minozzi "Bookmark" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2026.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;187;en

Prepared by: Marina Minozzi
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: IT2 045