Souvenir of the Greater Cork Exhibition, 1903

(Pope Leo XIII)

Reference Number:- Godden Number:- Sprake Number:- Radley Number:-
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silk postcards with title words and portrait image of Pope Leo XIII
 

 
Words:

Printed at top of card:-
SOUVENIR OF THE
GREATER CORK EXHIBITION, 1903.

 

Woven on Silk:-
LEO      XIII

{portrait of the Pope}

1878      1903

Printed at bottom of card:-

 
SILK WOVEN POST CARD.
  
 
W. H. GRANT & Co.
  
COVENTRY
  
Size:
card:
cm long by cm deep

silk:
cm long by cm deep

Comments:
Pope Leo XIII was born in March 1810, appointed as Pope in February 1878, and died in July 1903.

The Exhibition itself opened in May 1903 and closed in October 1903. The Pope's death hence occured during this exhibition, and that might be the reason for this postcard.

Whilst the actual card is certainly that of GRANT, the silk itself is probably not of his manufacture, as it has been seen as a loose silk with the Fellinger & Hassinger name woven below the portrait:
 

woven tobacco silk of the same portrait
 

 

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