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<p>[QUOTE="Spark1951, post: 8056834, member: 90692"][USER=111067]@expat[/USER] …I too have found abnormal bookmarks in books. A few have been currency. The best currency was a $20 bill, about 40 years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>My brother and I were corresponding about 4 years ago about British spies, so he located and sent me a book he found via eBay detailing the saga of Kim Philby. Around the middle of the book had pictures, and as I was reading and referring to the pictures, just past the picture section a few pages a bookmark dropped into my lap. It was a clipped out newspaper article about Philby, MacClean and Burgess from 1968 or so, just after Philby took it on the lam for Mother Russia.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both my brother and I were astounded at the discovery…a monumental coincidence. He said he bought the book from a bookstore in LA and he never saw or touched it, living near San Francisco, had it sent direct to me in Washington State.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Spark1951, post: 8056834, member: 90692"][USER=111067]@expat[/USER] …I too have found abnormal bookmarks in books. A few have been currency. The best currency was a $20 bill, about 40 years ago. My brother and I were corresponding about 4 years ago about British spies, so he located and sent me a book he found via eBay detailing the saga of Kim Philby. Around the middle of the book had pictures, and as I was reading and referring to the pictures, just past the picture section a few pages a bookmark dropped into my lap. It was a clipped out newspaper article about Philby, MacClean and Burgess from 1968 or so, just after Philby took it on the lam for Mother Russia. Both my brother and I were astounded at the discovery…a monumental coincidence. He said he bought the book from a bookstore in LA and he never saw or touched it, living near San Francisco, had it sent direct to me in Washington State.[/QUOTE]
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