Crystal Palace

(brown silk panel)

Reference Number:- Godden Number:- Sprake Number:-
sc 274 not recorded spc40a
 
Brown view of the Crystal Palace, with details of the building printed on the card

Words:
 
 
 Woven on silk:-
 
 
 
 
 (woven brown view
of the Crystal Palace)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Printed at bottom of card:-
 
 
 
WOVEN IN SILK

CRYSTAL PALACE.
Designed by
SIR JOSEPH PAXTON, M.P.,
OPENED BY THE LATE QUEEN VICTORIA,
MAY 10th, 1854.
Length of Palace 1,392 ft.     Breadth 384 ft.
Height of Roof 200 ft.
Area of Park 192 acres.
Length of Hot Water Pipes 16 miles.
Height of Water Tower 284 ft.
Water in Tower Tanks 2,500 tons.


 
(Regd. No. 411548)
  
Size:
card:
cm long by cm deep

silk:
cm long by cm deep

Comments:

This design was registered on 12 June 1903. The Registration Number, 411548, is printed on the card front.

The silk above is woven in brown, whilst the alternative version {recorded as sc272} has the silk woven in black & white.

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