What's New in Stevengraph-Silks

They also sent me the following images to go with titles already recorded, which are now added for the first time:
sb592 - Devoted love (excellent quality image)
sb692 - Felicidades Y Recuerdo (excellent quality image)
sb696 - Feliz Ano Nuevo (excellent quality image)
sb1152 - League of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (excellent quality image)
sb1520 - No me olvides (excellent quality image)
sb1900 - St. Columb's Catholic T.A. Society (favour) (excellent quality image)
sb2620 - (scroll reads: 'With its pendant sprays shows what slight fears affection sways') (excellent quality image)

On behalf of The Stevengraph Collectors Association, their President has sent me an excellent quality image of the following unrecorded bookmark, which is now added for the first time:
sb842 - God Preserve Thee (narrow bookmark) (excellent quality image)
He has also given me quality images of the following titles, which were previously recorded as titles, but without images:
sb212 - A Happy New Year to you [narrow pointed end lengthways ribbon] (excellent quality image)
sb796 - Forward / (coat of arms) / Forward (scroll: Birmingham 1925) / 33rd British National Christian Endeavour Convention / CE (excellent quality image)
sb1912 - T.C. Warner, Esq. Liberal candidate for Coventry (political favour) (excellent quality image)

With the absence of details of the words woven on the reverse of the following bookmark, it was originally, incorrectly, recorded as a Welch & Lenton bookmark. With the donation of the sb842 title and image above, this bookmark can now be positively identifed as being of Stevens manufacture, and has been moved:
sb1390 - May you have a happy birthday and many of them (thorn branch & flowers) (excellent quality image)

Together with the following German titled picture, which is a new addition to the catalogue:
st60-7 - Rettung naht (excellent quality image)
st272-1 - Gefahrliche Fahrt (excellent quality image)

The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry has very kindly given permission for the inclusion of the following images, taken of silks in their collections:
st452 - Paris-Magasins Du Bon Marche (picture of Bon Marche building) (excellent quality image)
st524 - Sha. Maison Du Phenix Sha (picture of Eiffel Tower) (excellent quality image)

Whilst these are new images to go with titles already recorded:
so820 - Wilhelm II, Kaiser with Augusta Victoria (excellent quality image)
so36 - Archer, The Late Fred (Unknown owners colours:- cream body, primrose sleeves, black cap, no signature) (excellent quality image)
so388 - Mater Dolorosa (without heart above image) (excellent quality image)
so456 - Salisbury, Marquis of, K.G. (with yellow and orange roses across jacket) (excellent quality image)

Whilst the following are new images added for the first time to titles already recorded in the catalogue:
sh1196 - RMS Ivernia: USA/Norway - (man's & woman's hand; tassel above each flag & beyond each sleeve) (excellent quality image)
sh1356 - RMS Laurentic: USA/Sweden - (man's & woman's hand; tassel above each flag & beyond each sleeve) (excellent quality image)

And these Perfumed Cards are also new titles added for the first time to the catalogue:
se420-026 - Happy may your birthday be, twelve months are gone (excellent quality image)
se420-028 - Many happy returns of the day, I wish you joy (excellent quality image)
se420-045 - The only wish that I can send (excellent quality image)
se420-048 - Tho' fortune take me from thy side (excellent quality image)
se420-052 - Wishing you a happy Christmas (excellent quality image)
se420-060 - Wishing you Many happy Returns of the day (excellent quality image)
se420-062 - With best wishes for your birthday (excellent quality image)

An improved image has replaced a previously recorded image in the following records:
sb586 - Dearest I love but thee (ribbon with words) (excellent quality image)
sb1016 - I believe in God the Father (with gothic arch at top) (excellent quality image)
sb1208 - Lord Roberts V. C. / Pretoria (favour) (excellent quality image)
sb1904 - (picture of church in wreath) / Stratford Church / He so sepulchred . . / (portrait in wreath) / Shakespeare / Born 23 April 1564 . . / (house in wreath) / The Poet's birthplace (excellent quality image)

And additional images have been added to the following records, so as to augment existing information:
sb544 - Collect / Blessed Lord who hast caused (excellent quality image)
sb898 - Happy (woven may flower) thy birthday be (excellent quality image)
sb912 - Happy may thy birthday be / May your days (excellent quality image)
sb1060 - I wish you a merry Christmas (2 robins) and a happy new year (pointed both ends) (excellent quality image)
sb1308 - Married at St. George's Chapel Windsor March 10th 1863 (excellent quality image)
sb1443 - Morning hymn / My God, who makes the sun to know (with 7 stars) (excellent quality image)
sb1618 - Psalms (full size bookmark) (excellent quality image)
sb2608 - With good wishes to my brother (excellent quality image)

I am grateful to Ian Lycett-King for providing me with a new image of a variant without the printed date, of the following title:-
st145 - Dick Turpin's Ride to York, on his bonnie Black Bess, 1739 (No Date nor Signpost & 8 line poem) - York Exhibition (excellent quality image)

The following German titled picture is a new addition to the catalogue, and whilst the title is itself recorded, the silk of the steam train is new:
st500-1 - Die jetzige Zeit (excellent quality image)

Whilst the following SPURCROFT image is added for the first time to a picture title already recorded:
osc46 - Brierley Mill (excellent quality image)

A Member of The Bookmark Society has very kindly sent me images of the following five bookmarks, all of which are new images to go with titles already recorded:
cash-bm0017 - {no words - Cats} - sitting black cat & brown cat in tree (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0052 - Country Companions (Rabbit in scarf catching a falling star) - © Gordon Fraser Gallery (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0055 - Country Companions (Hedgehog in bed) - © Gordon Fraser Gallery (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0056 - Country Companions (Mouse reading letter, mouse writing reply) - © Gordon Fraser Gallery) (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0058 - {no words - Rabbits upstairs, hedgehog at door} - (Country Companions set - © Gordon Fraser gallery) (excellent quality image)

The following are new images added for the first time to titles already recorded:
cash-bm0171 - Blessed John Henry Newman (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0251 - Cornwall (Countryside bookmark) (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0291 - David Evans World of Silk (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0363 - Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council (reasonable quality image)
cash-bm0444 - National Health Service Retirement Fellowship Coventry 2000 A.D. (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0454 - NSPCC Coventry Branch (millennium bookmark) (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0497 - Pope Benedict XVI visit to Britain 2010 (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0555 - Sandbach The Ancient Crosses (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0575 - Silk Museum Macclesfield (peacock) (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0610 - Stratford-upon-Avon (dots round edge) (Anne Hathaway's Cottage {above title}, The Royal Shakespeare Theatre {below title}) / " The Royal " on two lines (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0614 - Strawberry (Card with attached mini-bookmark:) (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0493 - The Pine Tree Fairy / Holly Fairy (excellent quality image)

Graham Parker has kindly sent me a colour variation of the following bookmark, which adds to the overall information available on this site:
sb1064 - I wish you a merry Christmas (donkey, cart & farmer) and a happy new year (pointed at both ends) (excellent quality image)

Whilst the following relates to a STEVENS calendar of un-known date:
stcal19xx - Columbus Leaving Spain, of unknown date (good quality image)

And the following GERMAN TITLED picture is added:
st228-1 - Auf Leben und Tod (Drähne title) (excellent quality image)

With the following Alpha series images added for the first time to titles already recorded:
sa240 - SINCERE GOOD WISHES FOR A HAPPY CHRISTMAS / May Health and Happiness unite (excellent quality image)
sa920 - TO MY DEAR SON / God guide you, dear, wherever you be (excellent quality image)

And the following new title added to the general postcards:-
sc86 - Jesus / Sacred Heart of Jesus (excellent quality image)

Whilst the following is a new image added for the first time to a title already recorded:
sc154 - The Lady Godiva Procession (large size, with roof invisible) (excellent quality image)

The following Stevens Rectangular Silk title is new to the catalogue, being recorded for the first time, together with an excellent quality image:
se264 - This is to wish you a happy birthday (excellent quality image)

Whilst the following image has been added for the first time to a title already recorded:
se205 - A Happy Christmas to you (excellent quality image)

And the following is a Stevens "MY ALBUM" woven silk insert to go inside a Victorian photograph album:
se302 - Silk book front: My Album (words only) (excellent quality image)

The following are new titles and images added to the Stevens Printed Cards:
se800-009 - Christmas Greeting (excellent quality image)
se802-001 - A Birthday Greeting (excellent quality image)
se802-011 - New Year's Greeting (excellent quality image)
se808-004 - A Birthday Blessing (excellent quality image)
se808-010 - A Blessing / Heaven guard you (excellent quality image)
se808-022 - A Happy New Year to You (excellent quality image)
se808-030 - Be Just and Fear Not (excellent quality image)
se808-038 - Dear One, May your birthday prove . . . (excellent quality image)
se808-060 - Remember me (excellent quality image)
se808-070 - With best love (excellent quality image)
se808-072 - With best wishes (excellent quality image)

And the following are new titles and images added to the Stevens Perfume Cards:
se420-003 - A Christmas devoid of all sorrow and care (excellent quality image)
se420-022 - Another Christmas day has come (excellent quality image)
se420-024 - Christmas Wishes / Forget me not (excellent quality image)
se420-027 - Many Happy returns of the day, as bright as flowers (excellent quality image)
se420-030 - May Christmas bring to thee a time (excellent quality image)
se420-032 - May Christmas Joys Attend You (excellent quality image)
se420-034 - May on this thy birthday be (excellent quality image)
se420-040 - May the New Year bring thee happiness (excellent quality image)
se420-042 - May the New Year bring you happiness (excellent quality image)
se420-056 - Wishing you a very merry Christmas (excellent quality image)
se420-058 - Wishing you every happiness thro' the New Year (excellent quality image)

Whilst the following new FAN titles and images have been added for the first time:
se624 - Printed fan - A Happy New Year - Four Seasons of the Year (excellent quality image)
se625 - Printed fan - Happy May Thy Birthday Be - Four Seasons of the Year (excellent quality image)

And these NEEDLE CASES:
se323 - Needle case [with bird, butterfly & flowers] - Wishing You Prosperity and Peace (excellent quality image)
se324 - Needle case [with flowers] - With every good wish (excellent quality image)

And the following BERISFORD image is added for the first time to a bookmark title already recorded:
obe255 - Congleton Cheshire England (excellent quality image)

There is now recorded two SILKMARK bookmarks with exactly the same words. The new addition has yellow & blue flowers, whilst the pre-existing version (osi32) has a totally different display of red flowers:
osi34 - When your eyes are heavy with sleep (yellow & blue flowers) (excellent quality image)

An image of another BERISFORD flower picture has been added to the title previously recorded:
obe72 - Bluebells (excellent quality image)

The following are new images added for the first time to titles already recorded:
cash-bm0054 - {no words - Hedgehog Postman} (1994) : no Cash's ID (Country Companions set - © Gordon Fraser gallery) (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0591 - British Ribbon Fair 1952 (Souvenir Bookmark) (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0238 - Clevedon (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0057 - Country Companions (Rabbit on stack of books) - © Gordon Fraser Gallery (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0423 - Merry Times - santa / tree / snowman 2007 (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0416 - Silk Museum Macclesfield (Millennium bookmark) (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0722 - Windsor - Castle from Park, Jubilee Garden 2005 (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0350 - Heart of England Co-op Congress 2001 (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0378 - 25 / IAM / 1956-1981 Silver Jubilee (Institute of Advanced Motorists Silver Jubilee 1956 - 1981) (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0403 - Leeds Castle Maidstone 'the loveliest castle in the world' (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0572 - Sidmouth (seaside) (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0573 - Sidmouth Town of Flowers (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0474 - Oundle (excellent quality image)

There is a suggestion that the very first STEVENGRAPH picture was in reality a cut down bookmark, mounted in a card matt. It is interesting now to record just such a picture of the title, " THE GOOD OLD DAYS ", although as this picture does not have a back label, it is possible it is not genuine:
st260 - Good Old Days (The) - no background (excellent quality image)

Whilst the following is a new image added for the first time to a title previously recorded:-
so278 - George V, His Majesty King (excellent quality image)

And the following is an improved quality image to replace one already recrded:-
so318 - Harrison, B. / Inaugurated March 4, 1889 (excellent quality image)

And evidence that Stevens sometimes overprinted his portraits to advertise another organisation. On this occasion, that of J. Wall, Watchmaker & Jeweller:-
so500 - Victoria, Her Majesty Queen (facing right - woven '1837 Jubilee 1887') (excellent quality image)

And the following BERISFORD title and image is added for the first time to a bookmark catalogue:
obe213 - Beamish (excellent quality image)

For some time now, there has been a record of the Loyal Address attributed to S.G. Poole, which was sent to King Edward VII. An early draft of this silk was dated 26th June, whilst the final version was dated 9th August 1902.
An even earlier draft of this Loyal Address has now been added to this site. This version has the same 26 June date, but has the additional design at the very top, with the words " CITY OF COVENTRY ":-
opo20 - Silk Panel: The Loyal Address to H.M. King Edward VII, 1902 - City of Coventry (excellent quality image)

The following are new images added for the first time to titles already recorded:
cash-bm0280 - Coventry School Bablake 1890 - 1990 (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0448 - New Forest (excellent quality image)

Whilst the following is a better quality image to replacement one already recorded:
cash-bm0544 - Royal Opera House (excellent quality image)