Grant Silk Woven picture - gt520: The Old London Street

by Geoffrey Godden:
YE OLDE LONDON STREETE (also titled THE OLD LONDON STREET)
This is a silk view of a London street as reconstructed for the 1885 Exhibition. It was sold mounted as a single silk at 1s, and it is also found as the central view of the multi-subject souvenir of the International Inventions Exhibition.

Other comments:
The actual silk included in the card mount above was also sold at the Exhibition as a "loose" item. It was slotted into two cuts in card board, Grant name written on the top, and "From the International Inventors Exhibition in London 1885" written on the back. I have one such silk in my collection, and have seen this format a number of times, which implies it was a deliberate marketing exercise by Grant.

silk picture of an old street scene, titled, Ye Olde London Streete

Reference Number:-	Godden Number:-	Grant Catalogue Number:-
gt 520	1048	unknown

Words:	Woven on Silk:- Printed at bottom of card:- W. H. GRANT, Manufacturer, (WOVEN IN PURE SILK) Foleshill, Coventry. THE OLD LONDON STREET. INTERNATIONAL INVENTIONS EXHIBITION, LONDON, 1885.
Size:	Card-mount: cm deep by cm wide silk: cm high by cm wide
Comments:	by Geoffrey Godden: YE OLDE LONDON STREETE (also titled THE OLD LONDON STREET) This is a silk view of a London street as reconstructed for the 1885 Exhibition. It was sold mounted as a single silk at 1s, and it is also found as the central view of the multi-subject souvenir of the International Inventions Exhibition. Other comments: The actual silk included in the card mount above was also sold at the Exhibition as a "loose" item. It was slotted into two cuts in card board, Grant name written on the top, and "From the International Inventors Exhibition in London 1885" written on the back. I have one such silk in my collection, and have seen this format a number of times, which implies it was a deliberate marketing exercise by Grant.