The image of this silk
bookmark kindly donated by
Georg Hartong, The Netherlands

Image of leaves

 

 

portrait of
Charles Dickens

 

 

Charles Dickens
BORN FEB. 7th 1812
DIED JUNE 9th 1870
Buried in
Westminster
Abbey
June 14th 1870

 

 

image of house,
with writing below:

DICKENS' HOUSE
GADSHILL-PLACE

" I HAVE ALWAYS STRIVEN IN
MY WRITINGS TO EXPRESS
VENERATION FOR THE LIFE
AND LESSONS OF
OUR SAVIOUR
BECAUSE I FEEL IT. "
DICKENS' LAST LETTER

 

26.5cm long by 5.7cm wide

 

Signed: "E. BOLLANS & Co. LEAMINGTON." on back at pointed end.

The design was registered on registered 11 July 1870, and there is a woven diamond registration mark on the back at the pointed end.