Woven on Silk:-

ribbon with words:-
LABYSMITH FEBy 28th 1900

Printed at top of card:-

EMPIRE MAKERS.

Printed at bottom of card:-

WOVEN IN PURE SILK
 
SIR REDVERS BULLER, V.C.
 
 
REGD. No. 356897                                  
 

Card-mount:
17.7cm deep by 13.0cm wide

silk:
10.1cm high by 6.4cm wide

by Godden:
A summary of Sir Redvers Buller's career is given on so 132 where the Stevens portrait silk of this Boer War hero is reviewed.

This Grant portrait silk was first issued in the 1900-01 'Empire Makers' series and bears the woven inscription 'Ladysmith. Feby 28th 1900'. The Grant design was registered on 4 May 1900, number 356897 - nearly two weeks after the Stevens version was registered.

The portrait is very similar to the Stevens one, which appears to have been taken from the photograph by Knight published in The Sphere magazine of 27 January 1900. The early issues of the Grant silk have the name printed in plain type, but slightly later versions versions have it in fancy art type without the general title 'Empire Makers'.

Other comments:

This silk is the Grant number 114.

The 'EMPIRE MAKERS' silks comprise:
Field Marshal Lord Roberts, V.C. [go204 on this site]
General Sir Redvers Buller, V.C. [image above]
Lord Kitchener of Khartoum. [go164 on this site]
Baden-Powell [go32 on this site]

rear printed label for this Grant silk portrait.