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A slight deviation from advertisements - this object shows how sentimental the public even became over emergency rations ('iron rations') The image of original and repro rations comes from www.angloboerwar.com/forum/21-uniforms-b...war-iron-ration-pack

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Bovril took advantage of the public's insatiable appetite for the latest news from the front by establishing their own news service, pasting these "War Bulletins" to the insides of grocers' shop windows. The numbering suggests that Bovril started this on or around 14 January 1900.

Each sheet is roughly 350 x 210 mm.








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Dutch postcard advertising C.A. Woltman Elpers' "Golden Hand" Shaving Soap (Amsterdam).

"ZEEPFABRIEK 'DE VERGULDE HAND' C.A. WOLTMAN ELPERS / DAMRAK, 14 AMSTERDAM / OPGERICHT 1554"
"PRIMA SALON-SCHEERZEEP / Mark DE VERGULDE HAND".

Cronje: "Hadden wij die zeep maar vroeger gehad!"
Botha: "Moet ik soms helpen?"
de Wet: "Zoolang ik hem onder't mes heb geen nood"
Kitchener zwijgt
Het is ook Hollandsch Fabrikaat zegt Steijn
Kruger: "Wanneer't mes trekt ligt't toch niet aan de zeep"




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Continuing with the Continental pro-Boer theme, below are two posters advertising the "TRANSVAAL & L'AFRIQUE SAUVAGE" spectacle and exhibition at the 1900 Paris World Fair (Exposition Universelle).







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Another poster advertising the Le Transvaal & L’Afrique Sauvage Exhibition in Paris, 1900.



The scene depicted pre-dates both Boer Wars. The Art Gallery selling it added the following explanation:

The former northeast South African province of “The Transvaal” was initially Inhabited by Bantu-speaking Black Africans. During the 1830s and ‘40s, a vast migration occurred into the area by descendants of settlers from mainland western Europe—most notably from the Netherlands—known as the Boers (“boer” is the Dutch word for “farmer”). This Boer migration would be known as “The Great Trek” and it led to the founding of three Afrikaner nations: Natalia, the Orange Free State, and the Transvaal. Originating from the Cape area, the Great Trek’s 12,000 participants were primarily motivated to relocate because of their discontent with recently imposed British rule. During the Great Trek, the Voortrekkers, as they were known, engaged in conflict with the Zulu of Natal. This violent encounter is presented here in Chapellier’s promotion for a recreation of the “Trek” at the 1900 Paris World’s Fair in a program entitled “The Transvaal and Savage Africa.” Though many large and small scale conflicts flared up during the Great Trek, the Boers' guns offered them an obvious technological advantage over the Zulu's traditional weaponry of short stabbing spears, fighting sticks, and cattle-hide shields, an advantage which led to the ultimate defeat of the Zulu warriors.


For anybody else like me who had never heard of Natalia, it was short-lived from 1839-1843 but had its own flag:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Republic

A deck of playing cards issued to advertise the Richmond Gas Stove & Meter Company Limited. Artwork by caricaturist William Philip May (1864-1903).






South Wales Gazette, 4th May 1904





William Philip May (1864-1903)
SEE: Phil May (caricaturist)

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