Bookmarkers

(Marietta, this is the only reference to pre-1700 bookmarkers in the book; no footnotes.)

Coysh, Arthur W. Collecting Bookmarkers (New York: Drake Publishers Inc, 1974), p. 7:

Bookmarkers appear to have been used in Tudor times. In 1584 Queen Elizabeth was presented with a fringed silk bookmarker by Christopher Barker who had acquired a patent as Queen's Printer in 1577 which came him the sole right to print the Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, the Statutes of the Realm and all proclamations. He was also a draper; hence the silk for the bookmarker. The British and Foreign Bible Society owns a bookmarker with plaited silk cords, silver knots and silk tassels which appears to have been made for use in a bible of 1632.