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Collection Markings
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I came across a collection recently with some interesting markings and thought I'd share.

These are a sampling from the collection, the most common pencil notation looks like "7 girls" , then there are other pencil notations that are names(anywhere from one to three per book).  A couple also have additional pen names in ink, maybe it indicated who had read them them?  Anyways, I believe most of the books were romance and hopefully I will be able to get more of them over time.

First up are two that seem to be "7 girls"-

On man's face, also has "X" stamp on woman's arm(not seen on any others so far)

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Notation under lampshade, also has date stamp

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This one has two names after the "7", one appears to be "Mayna", the the other "Lorraine" and has pen "Kat" upper right which also appears on another book.

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I love finding notations on old books like this. I recently got a couple older western books that just had the original owners name neatly written in them and on some of them, she had stamped an image of a girl with a dog. It was clear it was her way to notate her books when she was young.

Also, I want every book you just shared :)

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2 hours ago, lizards2 said:

I was afraid this thread was going to be about greggy...., :eek: 

This is our safe place, I'm not sure he knows about the Gold forum.

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A long time ago I bought a box of 50s and 60s Archies and romance stuff that were obviously comics three sisters shared, or maybe friends. They all had a name with "read" under it, or just the name on the cover. Most have two or three names on them. I assume that they marked the ones they read so they remembered.

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