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Rare medieval bookmark exceeds expectations at auction

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/76314
10•speckx•4d ago

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polnurfer•20m ago
Now that’s an NFT!
hypercube33•15m ago
Disappointing it doesnt list the expected or sale price that it went for on either the article or the linked auction page.
mfcl•8m ago
From the article:

> The pre-sale estimate £800-1200 ($1073-1610). It sold for £7,000 ($9390).

Luc•2m ago
> [...] the maker was almost certainly a transcriber who used it to keep his place on the page and note the column he was writing in when he stopped. The wheel would be moved to the stopping point and the circle turned to the number of the column he had been writing in when he stopped.

It appears to me it would make a lot more sense that the bookmark was placed in the source book rather than in the copy. I.e. the wheel would be turned to the source column they had been reading from.

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