Sir REDVERS BULLER, V.C.

Woven on Silk:-

ribbon with words:-
LABYSMITH FEBy 28th 1900

Printed at top of card:-

EMPIRE MAKERS.

Printed at bottom of card:-

WOVEN IN PURE SILK
 
SIR REDVERS BULLER, V.C.
 
 
REGD. No. 356897                                  
 

Card-mount:
17.7cm deep by 13.0cm wide

silk:
10.1cm high by 6.4cm wide

by Geoffrey Godden:
A summary of Sir Redvers Buller's career is given on so 132 where the Stevens portrait silk of this Boer War hero is reviewed.

This Grant portrait silk was first issued in the 1900-01 'Empire Makers' series and bears the woven inscription 'Ladysmith. Feby 28th 1900'. The Grant design was registered on 4 May 1900, number 356897 - nearly two weeks after the Stevens version was registered.

The portrait is very similar to the Stevens one, which appears to have been taken from the photograph by Knight published in The Sphere magazine of 27 January 1900. The early issues of the Grant silk have the name printed in plain type, but slightly later versions have it in fancy art type without the general title 'Empire Makers' [see go124].

Other comments:
This silk is the Grant number 114.

This design was registered by Grant on 4 May 1900, although the registration number is not woven into the design - it is instead printed on the card mount.
This identical silk portrait has however also been seen mounted in a card frame with no printed registration number, and also mounted in a card on which is printed "REGISTRATION APPLIED FOR."

The 'EMPIRE MAKERS' silks comprise:

Field Marshal Lord Roberts, V.C. [go260]

Lord Kitchener of Khartoum. [go240]

Baden-Powell [go64]

General Sir Redvers Buller, V.C. [image above]

rear printed label for this Grant silk portrait.