Bookmark: Victoria & Albert 1862

Woven by Charles Newsome, Coventry.

Reference Number:-  
one 104  
 

same basic design, but
with extended white area
at top of bookmark
 
same bookmark with extended white space above images of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert  
 
 
 
 
Bookmark with large white space, images of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and ribbon with words
The image of this silk kindly
donated by Anne Hurst, England.
 

Words:

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

[image of Queen Victoria]

 
 
 

[pattern with "V & A" intertwined]

 
 
 
 
 

[image of Prince Albert]

 
 

woven ribbon with words:

 
COVY:
   
1862
 
VICTORIA
ALBERT
 
 
 

[pattern with "CN" intertwined]

 
Size of Silk:

21.6cm long by 4.4cm wide

Alternative back-ground colours:
 
Comments:
by Godden:
Godden does not record this bookmark

Other comments:
Signed: " C. NEWSOME. MANUF.R.    OWEN BROS. DRAFTS. on the top turnover of this bookmark

back top turn over of this bookmark
image of top turn-over of this bookmark

This bookmark has the woven date of 1862, despite having both Victoria and Albert's name. Albert of course died in 1861!

Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne in 1837, and so her 25th Anniversary would have been 1862. It is probable therefore that this bookmark was designed in anticipation of that Anniversary, but possibly never issued. If that were the case, this must be a very rare bookmark.

This same bookmark is also shown above with an extended white area above the portraits, and for comparison purposes, this has been resized to the same width as the shorter version. That bookmark was hence longer, at 26.0cm long by 4.4cm wide:-


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image of extended white area bookmark added 1 September 2015, and replaced with improved version on 23 October 2023

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