Thumbographs are miniature books that people in England used,in the early 1900s, to gather thumbprints from friends, or from people they admired,and from anyone else whose thumbprints they wanted to gather. Thumbographs play a role in Austin Freeman’s detective novel The Red Thumb Mark, which introduced the world to Freeman’s fictional detective/physician/lawyer John Thorndyke. […]
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