A Silk Postcard(no copyright infringement intended)

Style

This postcard is published by W.H Grant & Co. This publisher manufactured greeting cards from each year that the exhibition was put on. The card’s printing origin traces back to Edinburgh, where the exhibition was put on. The exhibition printed these specific cards to promote the exhibition, making the card an ‘advertisement’ postcard. In addition, the postcard is produced with silk weaving, a different material than usual postcards but still popular in postcard production(Prochaska, 2001,377). Silk postcards were a speciality of the W.H Grant & Co publisher(Stevengraphs, n.d.).

Another Scottish National Exhibition Greeting Card

Series

The postcard is part of the Scottish National Exhibition Series by W.H. Grant & Co. The series included postcards from the exhibition in 1908 and 1911. The 'greeting' card was made alongside birdseye view cards of the fair. All of the cards were woven from silk. Not only did this publisher make postcards from the Scottish Exhibition, they also made silk greeting cards from different exhibitions such as the Liverpool Exhibition, 1913(Stevengraphs, n.d.).   

My Postcard with a White Background 

More Discovery 

The postcard does not have a specific manufacturing stamp anywhere on it, the W.H. Grant publisher is known due to the nature of the other postcards they produce and there similarity to this postcard. It is unknown how many years the publisher created these cards for and how many versions were produced for a given year. The backing of the postcard is different from every other postcard manufactured in the series, with no indication as to why tartan was chosen over the usual white background. The postcard could have been limited edition, or extremely rare as no search on the marketlace allows this card with the tartan backing to come up.