Major-General Baden Powell, The Heroic Defender of Mafeking Empire Makers. “Soldiers Of The Queen.” Woven In Pure Silk. Regd. No. 355195.

Grant, 1900 1st. Woven Silk Portrait in Card Mount. Card-mount: 17.8cm tall by 11.2cm wide. Silk: 11.5cm tall by 6.7cm wide. In very good condition. Card trimmed on side edges. Some rubbing to lettering on front “Woven on Pure Silk.” A couple of minor marks to mount. Silk has some minor tanning at top else bright and clean. No printed label on rear. Woven Silk Portrait of Major-General Baden Powell. The Grant version first appears under the title 'Empire Makers', a series which also includes Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, General Sir Redvers Buller, and Lord Kitchener of Khartoum - all issued in about 1900. There is no credit to Grant on the front of the card-mount or on the special 'Soldiers of the Queen' printed back-label which is normally found with these Boer War portrait silks. The Grant silk was registered as number 355195 at the Patent Office on 24 March 1900 - slightly before the Stevens version was registered. This silk is the Grant number 112. The 'EMPIRE MAKERS' silks comprise: Field Marshal Lord Roberts, V.C. General Sir Redvers Buller, V.C. Lord Kitchener of Khartoum. Baden-Powell.