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Cloisonné Butterfly Bookmarks

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Captivating butterflies will bookmark your pages or will make beguiling gifts for fellow book club members. Beautifully hand-enameled in the cloisonné tradition, they evoke cloisonné objets d’art. Set of 6. 2.25"l.

Museum Provenance

More than 300 tropical butterflies from North America, South America, Central America, Africa and Asia can be seen in Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

Every Smithsonian purchase will arrive with a museum provenance card explaining how it is adapted from or inspired by an object or objects in our collection.

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Cloisonn Butterfly Bookmarks

3.5

(based on 17 reviews)

71%

of respondents would recommend this to a friend.

Pros

Attractive (13)
Durable (7)

Cons

Flimsy (3)

Best Uses

Gifts (13)

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- Midrange shopper (10), Budget shopper (4)
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Reviewed by 17 customers

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1/8/2013

4.0

Very nice bookmarks

By Dennis

from Alabama

About Me Budget Shopper

Pros

Attractive Design
Durable

Cons

Best Uses

Bedroom
Gifts
Kitchen

Comments about Cloisonn Butterfly Bookmarks:

These bookmarks are well made and have a beautiful design for the butterfly lover in your life.

12/26/2012

5.0

Fancy

By Charlie

from Pe;sor, Arkansas

About Me Midrange Shopper

Pros

Attractive Design

Cons

Best Uses

Gifts

Comments about Cloisonn Butterfly Bookmarks:

useful and attractive

12/8/2012

4.0

Butterfly bookmarks rate well

By Ladybug

from Texas

About Me Budget Shopper

Pros

Attractive Design

Cons

Flimsy

Best Uses

Gifts

Comments about Cloisonn Butterfly Bookmarks:

gifts combined in gift bags with cloisennes pill boxes

12/8/2012

4.0

Butterflies as pretty as pictured

By Ladybug

from Texas

About Me Budget Shopper

Pros

Attractive Design

Cons

Flimsy
One Butterfly Broken

Best Uses

Gifts

Comments about Cloisonn Butterfly Bookmarks:

Matched the bookmarks with coisenne pill boxes and some with gem bracelets, all ordered from Smithsonian. Gave in small gift bags enclosing the museum description cards accompanying the appropriate items (also sent, without fee, from Smithsonian in delivery box).

11/24/2012

5.0

As Beautiful as a Real Butterfly!

By Cuban Girl

from California

About Me Midrange Shopper

Pros

Attractive Design
Dainty

Cons

Cannot Find Any

Best Uses

Books
Gifts

Comments about Cloisonn Butterfly Bookmarks:

Things that are great about it

6/9/2012

5.0

I would buy again

By BH

from Washington, DC

About Me Midrange Shopper

Pros

Attractive Design

Cons

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Gifts

Comments about Cloisonn Butterfly Bookmarks:

Great gift for my 92-year-old mother who loves to read.

12/22/2011

(4 of 4 customers found this review helpful)

1.0

The Antithesis of Smithsonian Integrity

By Tiffany

from New York

Pros

Cons

Horrific Quality

Best Uses

Comments about Cloisonn Butterfly Bookmarks:

I bought this bookmark set for Christmas and is utterly disappointed.
The box in which the product is placed in is flimsy and the bookmarks themselves are in appalling condition. The paint is falling off, and the Butterfly attached to the bookmark is glued on to the bookmark. The metallic sheen is also peeling off, and the back looks like spotted aluminum foil.

Smithsonian Catalogue refunded my order, but if you are like me, a high schooler trying to look for a present to show your gratitude to your friends for their help to you, you will be utterly upset that the product's quality is way below your expectations.

This is my first time shopping with Smithsonian, and I would suppose that the other products that it has to offer would be better, but this "Made in China" bookmark is really no good. Plus I guess if you look at it in another viewpoint: the things you buy from Smithsonian is used to help the foundations' program, you can really see buying this product as a twisted donation. But if they are going to refund you the money anyway, you are harming the foundation by wasting their work force in helping you.

12/6/2011

(1 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

3.0

Some quality issues

By Smithshop

from Utah

About Me Midrange Shopper

Pros

Attractive Design
Durable

Cons

Some damage to the finish

Best Uses

Gifts

Comments about Cloisonn Butterfly Bookmarks:

A nice small gift.

11/26/2011

(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

1.0

Closionn Butterfly Bookmarks

By Annbfitz[@]

from Boca Grande, FL

About Me Midrange Shopper

Pros

Cons

Gold chipping off

Best Uses

Gifts

Comments about Cloisonn Butterfly Bookmarks:

I bought these book marks for a gift for a friend and was disappointed upon receiving them that the gold was chipped on all of them.

5/11/2011

5.0

A Very Happy Mother on Mothers' Day

By Mike

from La Mesa, CA

About Me Midrange Shopper

Pros

Attractive Design
Durable

Cons

Best Uses

Gifts

Comments about Cloisonn Butterfly Bookmarks:

My wife knew the name "Closionn." She loved the bookmarks. Like many of us, she has more than one book going at a time.

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