ANGLO BOER WAR

33 items including prints, postcards and silk works housed in a blue padded leather album with a gold trim, each sleeve with a protective plastic cover, all the items are very good condition.

The contents are listed below:

1. Photo General Allenby
2. Sir Redvers Buller Woven in pure silk - Should be with the Empire Defenders
3. The Absent Minded Beggar. Silk with a “Gentleman In Khaki” print 1899
4. Postcard Lord Roberts 1899-1900
5. Photo Lieut.general Sir G.White
6. Photo – hand inscribed of Lord Roberts
7. Lord Kitchener
8. General Plummer on Horseback – colour
9. Sir Redvers Buller
10. Lord Roberts – hand written postcard from Ivy House 29th July 1900
11. General Buller – hand written postcard from Ivy House 29th July 1900
12. Lord Roberts - woven in silk
13. Lord Roberts – “Cigurros Paros”
EMPIRE DEFENDERS – Woven in pure Silk nos. 2, 12 and 14 - 17
14. Lord Kitchener Khartoum
15. General Sir George White
16. Maj Gen Baden Powell
17. Field Marshall Lord Roberts
18. Post card General Methuen
19. Boer War Postcard New South Wales Lancers
20. Pictures of the war in South Africa - leporello printed in Germany
21. Photograph Boer War Transport wagon near Mafeking
22. Photograph Boer War Commandant Cronje
23. Colour Photo – British in Khaki on horseback
24. Sir John French -4 photographs mounted on one page
25. Sir John French and Field marshall Earl Kitchener - 2 photographs
26. Lord Kitchener in Khaki
26. The Right Hon. J Chamberlain Secretary of State
27. Postcard “Firm of Purpose” Sir General White Defender of Ladysmith
27. Postcard “We conquer step by step” General French

Nos 2, 12, 14 – 17 are Stevengraphs.

Stevengraphs are pictures woven from silk, originally created by Thomas Stevens in the 19th century where the town of Coventry, was the centre of a ribbon weaving industry. In 1860 the Cobden–Chevalier Treaty was signed; this free trade treaty introduced new competition into the industry, leading to a collapse in the local economy.

Thomas Stevens, a local weaver, responded by adapting the Jacquard looms used in Coventry to weave colourful pictures from silk. By 1862, Stevens could produce four different designs and by the late 1880s this had grown to over 900; they became known as "Stevengraphs", after their maker. They were produced at his factory – the Stevengraph Works. Many of these designs were used to produce bookmarks, while others were used to make greeting cards and other silk objects, and were often mounted on cardboard. A printed label on the reverse would indicate that the design was registered and could not be copied.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevengraph

See also: Oosthuizen (Pieter) Boer War memorabilia pages 177 - 179