Mystery Bookplates
I have received several inquiries about bookplates I do not recognize.
If you have information about any of these bookplates please share it with us.
Send your responses to
Bookplatemaven@hotmail.com
Lew,
I recently purchased this set as American bindings.
Are you familiar with this book plate, which appears in all 3 volumes?
Are you familiar with this book plate, which appears in all 3 volumes?
The set belonged to Alexander Barret, who was a wealthy tobacco merchant..
Did he use any other bookplates ?
Regards, Steve
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Hi Lew,
I hope all is well with you!
Thank you for your kind responses to my previous emails. Might I lean on your bookplate expertise again? Do you have any suggestions on identifying the RGS associated with this bookplate? Thanks for any tips you might suggest!
Sincerely,
Gina
Note From Lew
I have been experimenting with Google's image search, in which you match your bookplate image against thousands of Google images. It is somewhat like facial recognition software.
I tried it with Gina's bookplate and was unsuccessful. You might wish to experiment with your own mystery bookplates.
Let me know if it works for you.
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Dear Sir,
Note From Lew
I have been experimenting with Google's image search, in which you match your bookplate image against thousands of Google images. It is somewhat like facial recognition software.
I tried it with Gina's bookplate and was unsuccessful. You might wish to experiment with your own mystery bookplates.
Let me know if it works for you.
https://www.google.com/intl/es419/insidesearch/features/images/searchbyimage.html
Two Mystery Bookplates in my own collection.
The diameter of this small circular bookplate is two CM ( 0.7874016 in.)
It was part of a European collection I purchased several months ago.
At first I thought it might be a letterhead crest but it has glue on the verso.
I suspect it might be a royal plate ,
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Does anyone out there recognize this Judaica plate ?
!2/13/2017 Thank you Michael for your help.
Dear Lew,
your last fine blog shows an unidentified circular bookplate, crayon lithography, showing the Hebraising Latin letter initials "BL".
This bookplate was made for Bob Luza, a physician and book collector in Amsterdam (1893-1980).
Luza had a wide interest, i.e. emblem books, incunabula, travel, and topography, says bookseller
A.L. van Gendt, who offered examples of Luza' famous book collection.
The library of Bob Luza was sold in an auction on December 15th-16th, 1981.
Unfortunately I do not know anything about the artist.
Regards
Michael Kunze,
Dortmund, Germany
Annie E, French
It was part of a European collection I purchased several months ago.
At first I thought it might be a letterhead crest but it has glue on the verso.
I suspect it might be a royal plate ,
11/17/2017 Thank you Bill, for your help.
Dear Lew,
I have checked the new edition of Khudolei, and it is not there; Bogomolov is more difficult to verify, but it does not appear there under the initials, if they are in fact Cyrillic. They could be, and would transliterate as "V.S.". 
Does anyone out there recognize this Judaica plate ?
!2/13/2017 Thank you Michael for your help.
Dear Lew,
your last fine blog shows an unidentified circular bookplate, crayon lithography, showing the Hebraising Latin letter initials "BL".
This bookplate was made for Bob Luza, a physician and book collector in Amsterdam (1893-1980).
Luza had a wide interest, i.e. emblem books, incunabula, travel, and topography, says bookseller
A.L. van Gendt, who offered examples of Luza' famous book collection.
The library of Bob Luza was sold in an auction on December 15th-16th, 1981.
Unfortunately I do not know anything about the artist.
Regards
Michael Kunze,
Dortmund, Germany
Annie E, French
Several weeks ago I wrote about this Annie E.French plate and requested images of other plates she made.
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This message was recently sent to me .
I came upon your website earlier today and saw you had purchased a bookplate by Annie French and were interested if there were any others. It so happens that Annie French designed a bookplate for my grandfather, Ion Smeaton Munro. He fought in the First World War and then was a writer and journalist. He died in 1971 and, sadly I don’t remember him. I think they were friends as we also have a couple of pictures beautifully painted by her.
The plate is beautiful I think. The crest bottom left is the Munro family crest, which includes the words ‘Dread God’ that can just be seen.
Best wishes,
Fiona Phillipson
Here are some original Annie E. French drawings from the the Phillipson collection.
See you next week,Lew
