Grant Silk Woven Portrait - go76 - Major-General Baden Powell

by Geoffrey Godden:
A summary of Baden-Powell's career is given on so 72 where the Stevens portrait silk of this Boer War hero is reviewed.

The early examples have on the card-mount the printed title 'Colonel Baden Powell' (go 64). However, he was promoted to Major-General in May 1900, and the later mounts (go 68) bear the amended rank 'Major-General Baden Powell'.

Later runs of the post-May 1900 silks have the name in a fancy art type (above), not in the early plain type, and the general title 'Empire Makers' is not printed on the card-mount. I have seen examples of these later silks with the wording 'Made in Switzerland' stamped on the back of the card-mount.

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Reference Number:-	Godden Number:-	Sprake Number:-
go 76	924b	Sprake did not record any Grants

Words:	Woven on Silk:- ribbon with words:- FOR THE FLAG Printed at top of card:- Printed at bottom of card:- WOVEN IN PURE SILK Major-General Baden Powell.
Size:	Card-mount: cut down to: 16.0cm deep by 11.5cm wide silk: 10.0cm high by 6.1cm wide
Comments:	by Geoffrey Godden: A summary of Baden-Powell's career is given on so 72 where the Stevens portrait silk of this Boer War hero is reviewed. The early examples have on the card-mount the printed title 'Colonel Baden Powell' (go 64). However, he was promoted to Major-General in May 1900, and the later mounts (go 68) bear the amended rank 'Major-General Baden Powell'. Later runs of the post-May 1900 silks have the name in a fancy art type (above), not in the early plain type, and the general title 'Empire Makers' is not printed on the card-mount. I have seen examples of these later silks with the wording 'Made in Switzerland' stamped on the back of the card-mount. Other comments: