Hands across the sea

The woven silk is a genuine STEVENS SILK of
USA and Irish flags
with man's and woman's shaking hands
and tassles below hands only.

The card mount however is a genuine GRANT postcard.
 
 

From the recorded silk R.M.S. Caronia {gc408 on this site} which has the Grant name printed on the card, we know that embossed silks with an anchor design in each corner, as the image above, were made by Grant.

For comparison purposes, the image on the right above is of the genuine STEVENS RMS Baltic postcard. It can be seen that the actual woven silk is identical.
A quick look at TSS Caledonia {gc419 on this site}, an undisputed Grant postcard, it will be seen that whilst there is a similarity between the two Irish flags, the stars on the USA Stars & Stripes are different (as too is the left edge), and both the man's and woman's hands are very different.

As this is a STEVENS woven silk, the design has been recorded as of his manufacture, and recorded as sh1018 on this site.

I have no explanation as to why a Stevens silk should be mounted in a Grant postcard frame. It seems most improbable, although John High, in his unpublished work, also records two other such abnormalities.