Coventry

Reference Number:- Godden Number:- Sprake Number:- Radley Number:-
gc 512 929 No Postcards listed by Sprake listed
 

silk mounted in one of the earliest printed card designs.
 
image of Grey Friar's Green Coventry, woven in black and white silk
same silk mounted in usual printed card designs.
 
image of Grey Friar's Green Coventry, woven in black and white silk
{image of Grey Friar's Green Coventry, woven in black and white silk}

 
Words:

Woven on Silk:-

COVENTRY

image of Grey Friar's Green Coventry

 

Printed at bottom of card:-
 
WOVEN IN PURE SILK
 
 
W. H. GRANT & Co.
 
COVENTRY.
 
Size:
card:
cm long by cm deep

silk:
cm long by cm deep

Comments:
This silk is recorded on the Grant price list and catalogue as number 141.

The card on the left, with the elaborate border is known to have been used by Grant on their early postcards, in circa 1902-03.

 


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This page was created on 10 July 2004
new image with elaborate border added 16 August 2009, and new image of usual card added 28 July 2016 © Peter Daws - Stevengraph-Silks