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Who made these silks? |
As well as the records for identified weavers, there are a number of images that have not been identified to specific makers. I have included many of these in a seperate section. Several have already been identified, and recorded accordingly, whilst others have been identified as of foreign manufacture and removed. Can you help identify who made any of the remaining ones? Here are the details of the silk bookmarks, postcards and pictures so far included. Can you help? | |||
20 March 2024 | Stevens Bookmarks | The following title was recorded in John High's unpublished catalogue of Stevens bookmarks, although it was inadvertantly omitted from this site. It is now recorded for the first time, together with image: sb2344 - To my sister / (flowers with words: To My Sister) / Sister, Dear (excellent quality image) | ||
Stevens Pictures | The President of the SCA has provided me with a Stevens Triple Title picture. With this donation, the Triple Title catalogue is now complete: st668 - THE GOOD OLD DAYS / AUTREFOIS - SONST (excellent quality image) | |||
Alpha Postcards | Richard Mole has kindly donated the following Alpha Series postcards. The first four are new titles, not previously recorded on this site:- sa507 - Wishing you a Joyful Christmas / Christmas Greetings / May happiness be with you (excellent quality image) sa641 - (stag: Monarch of the Glen) / WITH LOVING WISHES TO MY SWEETHEART / A Happy New Year (excellent quality image) sa694 - (Anne Hathaway's Cottage) / CHRISTMAS GREETINGS / Christmas dawns again, for time (excellent quality image) sa947 - (flowers: large rose, 1 bud) / WITH MY HEART'S FONDEST WISHES / Bright are the stars of night, Bright (excellent quality image) And interestingly, this postcard is undoubtedly an ALPHA SERIES card, but there is no printed credit on the card:- sa850 - (flowers: large rose, 1 bud) / A JOYOUS CHRISTMAS / Long Life and Happy Days / Friends (excellent quality image) The next is a new image added for the first time to an existing title:- sa385 - Mizpah / Birthday Wishes across the Sea / {no printing on card] (excellent quality image) Whilst the next are new images to replace previously poor quality images:- sa750 - (flowers: bowl with tall spray of forget-me-nots) / A Peaceful Easter / I wish you an Easter joyful and bright (excellent quality image) sa820 - (flowers: spray of forget-me-nots) / To My Dear Girl / Love to make you happy, health to (excellent quality image) And the rest being colour variations added to existing images: sa20 - All Joys be yours / BIRTHDAY GREETINGS / {no printing on card] (excellent quality image) sa390 - Mizpah / Easter joys be yours / Of all good things to wish you I know .] (excellent quality image) sa395 - Mizpah / LOVING BIRTHDAY GREETINGS! / Happy returns! The words are old (excellent quality image) sa545 - With every Kind Thought / BIRTHDAY GREETINGS / May every day for you be a Happy Day (excellent quality image) sa660 - (shamrock & symbol of Good Luck) / HEARTY BIRTHDAY GREETINGS / Love to make you happy, health to make (excellent quality image) sa880 - (flowers: large rose, 1 bud) / FOND GREETINGS FROM HOME / May Father Time for you unfold (excellent quality image) In addition to Richard's images, the following is also a new title and image added for the first time to the catalogue:- sa513 - Wishing you a Joyful Christmas / May love and peace and happiness . . ./ {no words} (excellent quality image) | |||
Stevens Ship Postcards | The following addition is of the ship RMS Canada, with a large amount of smoke aft of the mast, but with choppy sea. The existing record is of the ship with calm sea: si137 - RMS Canada (excellent quality image) | |||
Stevens Hands Across The Sea Postcards | The following addition is of the HATS card for the ship RMS Aquitania: sh1014 - RMS Aquitania: USA/Ireland (harp only at left) (man's & woman's hand; tassel only behind hands) (excellent quality image) | |||
Stevens postcards | With the additional kind donation by Richard Mole, the following new images have been added to titles already existing: sc120 - George Stephenson (portrait) / Past, Present (excellent quality image) sc260 - Coventry (Greyfriars Green) (excellent quality image) sc300 - Provincial Government Buildings, Victoria B.C. (excellent quality image) sc316 - St George's Hall, Liverpool (excellent quality image) And the following images were donated by the President of the Stevengraph Collectors Association: sc66 - Ecce Homo (with purple cloak) (excellent quality image) sc72 - Field Marshal Sir John French (excellent quality image) sc292 - Loch Promenade, Douglas (excellent quality image) sc369 - Thomas Stevens {advertising postcard} (excellent quality image) | |||
Stevens Other Woven items | The following is a new addition as a favour to be worn as a badge: se003 - Ribbon with word: MAFEKING (excellent quality image) | |||
Grant Bookmarks | The President of The Stevengraph Collectors Association has continued his support of this site with the donation of the following titles and images, all of which are new additions to the catalogue: gb50 - A. E. W. Mason / Liberal candidate (excellent quality image) gb2026 - Souvenir of the Franco British Exhibition / Shepherds Bush, London 1908 / Hands Across The Sea / (image of hands & British & French flags) / L'ENTENTE CORDIALE . . . (excellent quality image) gb2880 - W. Johnson Esq / Liberal candidate (excellent quality image) | |||
Grant Postcards | The following are new titles added for the first time to the catalogue, together with excellent quality images: gc732-cc - All Xmas Joys be thine, Good wishes for the New Year / Ring out the old . . . (as 1903 Christmas Card) (excellent quality image) | |||
Other Weavers | The following BERISFORD bookmark titles and images have been added for the first time: obe261 - Durham Cathedral 1093-1993 (excellent quality image) obe292 - Manchester United Football Club (excellent quality image) obe308 - Pitlochry (excellent quality image) obe311 - Should auld acquaintance (excellent quality image) obe260 - Congleton Millennium Celebrations 2000 (excellent quality image) And a BERISFORD woven picture: obe36 - Woodpecker (excellent quality image) A new title and image has been added to the SKILLCOCK catalogue, thanks to the donation by the President of The Stevengraph Collectors Association: | |||
Cash's Other Weavings | CASH'S made multiple saw on patches in the factory in Australia, most of which were for the America market. A sample of these USA patches has been added for the first time: cash-other0030 - USA Patches (multiple images) (excellent quality image) | |||
Cash's Bookmarks | The following title and image is a new addition of an American bookmark made by CASH'S: cash-bm0781 - May the joys of a Merry Christmas (excellent quality image) And the following image is added for the first time to a title already recorded in the catalogue: | |||
24 October 2023 | Stevens Bookmarks | The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry has very kindly provided me with this image of a bookmark to go with a title already recorded, which is now added for the first time: sb1532 - O Lord let thy mercy lighten upon us (frayed end tassel) (excellent quality image) | ||
Stevens Pictures | The President of the SCA has provided me with the following new additions to the catalogue: st164 - Die Gegenwartige Zeit / 60 Meilen per Stunde (German title for 'Present Time (The) / 60 Miles an Hour - Lord Howe engine & 2 carriages' - version st480) (excellent quality image) st168 - Die Gute Alte Zeit (German title for 'The Good Old Days'- version st260) (excellent quality image) Together with the corresponding German titled pictures, which are new additions to the catalogue: | |||
Stevens Portraits | The President of the Stevengraph Collectors Association has provided me with an image of the following portrait, being a new title and image added for the first time: so305 - Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W.E., The Champion of Liberty (small silk, title woven above portrait) (excellent quality image) | |||
Alpha Postcards | The following are previously unrecorded new titles added for the first time to the Alpha postcard catalogue: sa363 - MAY THY / LIFE / BE FULL / OF JOY / [no printing on card] (excellent quality image) sa729 - (flowers: red and yellow flower on branch) / A HAPPY CHRISTMAS (excellent quality image) sa922 - (flowers: rose: large rose, 1 bud) / TO WISH YOU A HAPPY CHRISTMAS (excellent quality image) And the following are new images added for the first time to titles already recorded:
The Alpha postcards have a printed credit at the bottom of each card, being either " Alpha Series " or " Alpha Publishing ". Once produced with one or other version of words, the card remains unchanged. Unusually, this new addition, with the words " Alpha Publishing ", is added to a pre-existing record, where the card has the words " Alpha Series ": | |||
Stevens postcards | With the kind donation by The President of The Stevengraph Collectors Association, the following new images have been added to titles already existing: sc96 - Luitpold - Prinz Regent Von Bayern (excellent quality image) sc224 - Hunting scene (excellent quality image) sc454 - Stag [middle of bookmark sb2516: Wishing you prosperity and peace] (excellent quality image) And Graham Parker has donated the following image for a title not previously recorded: | |||
Stevens Other Woven items | These Padded Printed Cards are new titles added for the first time to the catalogue: se460-014 - May Christmas Joys and pleasures (excellent quality image) se460-023 - This my Christmas wish to thee (excellent quality image) se460-005 - A Happy Christmas (excellent quality image) se460-024 - Though our lives should last (excellent quality image) se460-026 - To one I love (excellent quality image) se460-027 - Tribute of true Christmas love (excellent quality image) se460-022 - Take my love; 'tis ever true (excellent quality image) And these Boxed Cards are also new titles added for the first time to the catalogue: And these Plush Fold-over Cards too are new titles added for the first time to the catalogue: Whilst this Perfumed Card too is a new title added for the first time to the catalogue: | |||
Grant Portraits | Grant included the title " JUBILEE TROPHY " in the advertisements printed on the back of multiple portrait silks. This title has never been seen printed anywhere, and it is more than likely to be a promotional title, rather than actual. The Stevengraph Collectors Association reproduced a picture of a previously un-known Grant portrait of Victoria. In my own records, I have for many years had an image of an unknwon loose silk, which turned out to be the same portrait. On very close comparison between the loose silk, the mounted portrait and the Grant advertisement wording, it would seem this previously unrecorded silk is actually the JUBILEE TROPHY portrait, and is recoded as such: go286 - Jubilee Trophy - Her Majesty Queen Victoria portrait, the Royal Arms, emblems etc (excellent quality image) The following is a new image added for the first time to the title already recorded: | |||
Grant Pictures | Whilst the woven silk is identical to the already recorded OLD BISHOPSGATE, this title has not been recorded before in so far as the title of BISHOPGATE has the middle " S " missing: gt515 - Old Bishopgate (excellent quality image) | |||
Grant Bookmarks | The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry has very kindly given permission for the inclusion of the following images, taken of silks in their collections: gb300 - Coronation June 1911 H.M. George V (excellent quality image) gb302 - Coronation June 1911 Queen Mary (excellent quality image) The following is a previously unrecorded title, added for the first time to the Grant catalogue: | |||
Grant Postcards | Possibly a novelty: It has long been suspected that Grant sold his unmounted silks to third parties, for them to mount in their own cards. This new addition to the catalogue is of the Grant Queen Victoria portrait silk mounted in a continental postcard frame. Silk postcards were not permitted in the UK postal system during Victoria's reign, so this card was intended exclusively for the foreign market:- gc2 - Queen Victoria (continental card mount) (excellent quality image) And the following are also new titles recorded for the first time: | |||
Grant Rosettes & Other Silk Items | The following rosette title is a new addition to the catalogue: gr145 - Rosette - Coronation June 26, 1902 (Edward VII & Alexandra) (excellent quality image) Graham Parker has sent me an image of a loose silk of Queen Victoria as a young women, and this is the first time this ribbon has been recorded | |||
Welch & Lenton bookmarks | The President of the SCA has donated the following bookmark images, the first three being new titles not previously recorded, whilst the remaining are new images added for the first time to titles previously recorded: owe224 - CHRISTMAS / (holly & mistletoe) / I wish thee dearest / friend . . (excellent quality image) owe636 - THY WILL / BE / DONE / My God, My Father . . (excellent quality image) owe669 - TO MY LOVE / The light that glistens . . . (five pattern motif at pointed end) (excellent quality image) owe44 - A / Birthday Wish / (flowers) / May your life to . . (excellent quality image) owe128 - (robin on holly branch) / A Merry Christmas To You (excellent quality image) owe204 - (forget-me-not flowers) / Blossoming within my bower / I cherish love . . (excellent quality image) owe680 - To one I Love / (flowers) / Like the dazzling light . . (excellent quality image) Whilst the following is a new image of a new title not previously recorded, from another donor: Welch & Lenton are more commonly known for their woven bookmarks, although they did design and register two pictures. These are usually only found as loose silks. The SCA President has however donated an image of the two mounted together in one matt, which would appear to be original | |||
Bollans bookmarks | And the following image to replace a previously recorded poor quality image: obo644 - To a Dear Friend / (country scene) / Sweet and peaceful . . (excellent quality image) | |||
Other Weavers | The following CARTWRIGHT & SHELDON image has been added to a title already recorded. With the inclusion of this image, the catalogue for CARTWRIGHT & SHELDON is now complete, with an image for every recorded title: ocs12 - The Cat (who walked alone) (excellent quality image) The following SPENCER favour had not previously been recorded, and is a new addition to their catalogue: | |||
Cash's Greetings Cards | The following titles are new to the Greetings Cards catalogue, being recorded for the first time: cash-card0405 - (image of Hearts) (excellent quality image) cash-card0399 - Humpty Bumpty (excellent quality image) cash-card0401 - Strawberry (excellent quality image) cash-card0402 - Nasturtium (excellent quality image) cash-card0406 - Mary, Joseph, donkey & star (excellent quality image) cash-card0389 - Nativity scene (excellent quality image) cash-card0390 - Shepherd, stable and star (excellent quality image) cash-card0391 - Three Wise Men (excellent quality image) cash-card0374 - Father Christmas - full face (excellent quality image) cash-card0393 - Child at front door with basket & dog (excellent quality image) cash-card0403 - Lady with muff and little dog (excellent quality image) cash-card0397 - Girl with teddy & Xmas stocking (excellent quality image) cash-card0381 - Ponies (excellent quality image) cash-card0368 - Tasmanian Devil (excellent quality image) cash-card0369 - Tasmanian Tiger (excellent quality image) cash-card0398 - Great Brown Owl - with ivy leaves (excellent quality image) And the following have new images added for the first time to existing titles: | |||
Cash's Other Weavings | The following advertising weaving has been added for the first time: cash-other0027 - One Pound note (excellent quality image) And the following JAC-in-a-Box containers: | |||
Cash's Bookmarks | The following bookmark is a variation in design of an existing title, and is the first time recorded: cash-bm0779 - The Guide Law (diamond top) (excellent quality image) The following is a new title and image added for the first time to the catalogue: And the following is a new image added to an existing title: | |||
Cash's Pictures | The following is a new title and image added for the first time to the catalogue: cash-picture0416 - Heron (excellent quality image) Whilst the following are also new additions to the catalogue, they were all issued by CASH'S in mid 2023 for the first time, even though the designs seem to originate in 2009: | |||
8 August 2023 | Stevens Bookmarks | The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry has very kindly provided me with an image of a bookmark, or favour, which had not previously been catalogued: sb26 - 9th British National Convention / Belfast 99 (excellent quality image) They also sent me the following images to go with titles already recorded, which are now added for the first time:
On behalf of The Stevengraph Collectors Association, their President has sent me an excellent quality image of the following unrecorded bookmark, which is now added for the first time: With the absence of details of the words woven on the reverse of the following bookmark, it was originally, incorrectly, recorded as a Welch & Lenton bookmark. With the donation of the sb842 title and image above, this bookmark can now be positively identifed as being of Stevens manufacture, and has been moved: | ||
Stevens Pictures | The President of the SCA has provided me with the following new additions to the catalogue: st70 - Christian Treasures (excellent quality image) st274 - Happy Days (excellent quality image) st276 - He died that all might live (excellent quality image) st422 - "London & York" Stage Coach (The) - 'manufactured in York Exhibition, 1879' in lower left corner of mount (excellent quality image) st472 - Present Time (The) - title in 2 colours: Stevens silk with 'T.E. Carter, Carver and Gilder, Coventry' credit (excellent quality image) st584 - Struggle (The) - preceded by 'West St. Mary's Ward Election. Plump for Read, the Popular Candidate' (excellent quality image) st586 - Sweet Flowers of Nature (excellent quality image) Together with the following German titled picture, which is a new addition to the catalogue: The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry has very kindly given permission for the inclusion of the following images, taken of silks in their collections: | |||
Stevens Portraits | The President of the Stevengraph Collectors Association has also provided me with images of the following portraits. The first two are new titles and images added for the first time: so884 - Royal Family (being: Edward VII, Queen Alexandra, the late Queen Victoria, Princess of Wales and Prince of Wales) (reasonable quality image) so888 - Boar War Generals (being: Kitchener, Baden-Powell, Roberts, French and Buller) (reasonable quality image) Whilst these are new images to go with titles already recorded: | |||
Stevens Hands Across The Sea postcards | With the kind donation by Graham Parker of a new image, the following new title has been added for the first time to the HATS catalogue: sh1174 - RMS Saxonia: USA/Italy - (man's & woman's hand; tassel above each flag & beyond each sleeve) (excellent quality image)
Whilst the following are new images added for the first time to titles already recorded in the catalogue: | |||
Stevens Other Woven items | The following Stevens printed cards are new titles and images, added for the first time: se802-012 - To One I Love (excellent quality image) se806-001 - A Glad New Year (excellent quality image) se806-009 - A New Years Wish (excellent quality image) se808-011 - A Christmas Wish / May health and plenty (excellent quality image) se808-012 - A Christmas Wish / May the joy of Christmas days (excellent quality image) se808-014 - A Glad Christmas (excellent quality image) se808-016 - A Happy Christmas / In humble cot (excellent quality image) se808-018 - A Happy Christmas / I send you on this Christmas morn (excellent quality image) se808-024 - A Joyous Christmas (excellent quality image) se808-025 - A Merry Christmas / I wish you (excellent quality image) se808-026 - A Merry Christmas / When nature is silent (excellent quality image) se808-028 - Another Christmas day (excellent quality image) se808-041 - I Wish You a Merry Christmas (excellent quality image) se808-044 - Let all be merry (excellent quality image) se808-050 - May you have a happy birthday and many of them (excellent quality image) se808-052 - May your Christmas be happy (excellent quality image) se808-056 - Old Christmas approaches (excellent quality image) And these Perfumed Cards are also new titles added for the first time to the catalogue: | |||
Grant Pictures | The President of the SCA has also clarified the Grant calendars with the donation of the following images: gt225 - Calendar 1925 - The Way to Success (excellent quality image) gt227 - Calendar 1927 - Keep On Keepin' On (excellent quality image) gt231 - Calendar 1931 - Comin' thro' the rye (excellent quality image) And the following two battleship pictures: gt146 - Britain's Bulwarks - H.M.S. Jupiter (excellent quality image) gt147 - Britain's Bulwarks - H.M.S. Mars (excellent quality image) | |||
Grant Postcards | The President of the SCA has also donated the following postcard images: gc390-fb - British and French flags (Souvenir of the Franco-British Exhibition, 1908) (excellent quality image) gc800-fb - Comin' thro' the rye (Souvenir of the Franco-British Exhibition, 1908) (excellent quality image) | |||
Other Weavers | The President of the Stevengraph Collectors Association has very kindly donated the following two bookmark images:- Firstly, the following E.K., LONDON bookmark title is a new additions to the catalogue: oek130 - Sincere Wishes / Rock Of Ages (The Emmanuel Series) (excellent quality image) And secondly, the following MORGAN & SCOTT bookmark title is a new additions to the catalogue: omo45 - Mizpah / The Lord Watch (excellent quality image) | |||
7 June 2023 | Stevens Bookmarks | The following are new titles and images added for the first time to the catalogue: sb488 - CE / Convention / Belfast 1896 (excellent quality image) sb2426 - Unchanging love / When love is kind (letters in script) (excellent quality image) On behalf of The Stevengraph Collectors Association, their President has sent me an excellent quality image of the following bookmark to add for the first time to a title already recorded: sb1448 - Muchas felicidades (excellent quality image) An improved image has replaced a previously recorded image in the following records: And additional images have been added to the following records, so as to augment existing information: | ||
Stevens Pictures | The following pictures are new additions to the catalogue, and whilst the actual Stevens titles are already recorded, these have overprinting at the top, which appears to be original: st120 - Death (The) - The Empress of Austria in the field (excellent quality image) st430 - Meet (The) - The Empress of Austria in the field (excellent quality image) I am grateful to Ian Lycett-King for providing me with a new image of a variant without the printed date, of the following title:- The following German titled picture is a new addition to the catalogue, and whilst the title is itself recorded, the silk of the steam train is new: | |||
Stevens Postcards | The following are new titles and images added for the first time to the Stevens Alpha series postcards:- sa444 - To My / HUSBAND / {no printed words} (excellent quality image) sa851 - (flowers: rose: large rose, 1 bud) / A JOYOUS CHRISTMAS / Long Life and Happy Days, Prosperity . . . (excellent quality image) | |||
Stevens Other Woven items | The following Stevens printed card is a new title and image, added for the first time: se808-007 - A Birthday Greeting / I greet thee (excellent quality image) se808-022 - A Happy New Year to you / May a three-fold blessing (excellent quality image) se808-021 - A Happy New Year / May a three-fold blessing (excellent quality image) se808-071 - With Best Wishes (excellent quality image) | |||
Other Weavers | The following BROUGH, NICHOLSON & HALL title is a new additions to the catalogue, and recorded for the first time with an image: obn58 - Bookmark - Newfoundland 1939 (Commemorating the Royal Visit of King George V1 and Queen Elizabeth) (excellent quality image) Whilst the following SPURCROFT image is added for the first time to a picture title already recorded: | |||
J. & J. Cash Bookmarks | The following are previously unrecorded titles, which, together with a quality images, are added for the first time to the Cash's bookmark catalogue: cash-bm0775 - 1635 - 1935 Tercentenary Celebration State of Connecticut (excellent quality image) cash-bm0776 - His Majesty The King (King Charles III Coronation) (reasonable quality image) cash-bm0777 - King Charles III Coronation 6th May 2023 (excellent quality image) cash-bm0778 - The Coronation of His Majesty (excellent quality image) cash-bm0774 - Wesley (excellent quality image) A Member of The Bookmark Society has very kindly sent me images of the following five bookmarks, all of which are new images to go with titles already recorded: The following are new images added for the first time to titles already recorded: | |||