Image of jockey Charles Wood
the image of this silk was kindly donated by Mrs G Buckingham, Guernsey

C. Wood

cream jacket and cap
no signature


Reference Number:- Sprake Number:- Godden Number:-
so 596 38 160a
 
Words:
Woven on silk:-
 
 
 
 

Printed at bottom of card-mount:-
WOVEN IN PURE SILK BY T. STEVENS, COVENTRY. 

C. WOOD. 

Size:
Card-mount:
cm deep by cm wide

silk:
cm deep by cm wide

Comments:

by Sprake:
 

by Godden:
The portrait of this jockey, Charles Wood, occurs in the three versions listed below.
Some omit the woven signature below the portrait.
The title was first listed on label 21+13+2 of 1887, examples being mounted on type C2 card-mounts.
The title was first included in a Stevens advertisement published in May 1887.

§160 - With Mr R. Peck's colours: blue jacket with orange sleeves, blue cap. (Found with or without the woven signature.) - see so592 with signature, and so594 with no signature.

§160a - With Captain Christie's colours: cream colour jacket and cap. (This version does not include the woven signature.) - the image above.

§160b - In Sir G. Chetwynd's colours: yellow (straw) jacket with blue sleeves and cap. (Found with or without woven signature.) - see so600, and so604 with no signature.

Other comments:
For the version with Charles Wood in Captain Christie's colours (cream colour jacket and cap), and also with the woven signature, see so595.



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