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What on earth possessed me ....? Even the original is horrible ....

Twenty years ago an eBay seller was off-printing various ABW images onto wooden items, which were then varnished and aged by rubbing them down with fine emery paper. Subjects that received this treatment included Baden-Powell, Churchill and the "Sop the War Committee". For a brief period matchbox stands, vesta cases, fans and other small pieces of treenware appeared regularly amongst my "Boer War" search results.




A wooden fan with portraits of Queen Victoria, Lord Roberts & Baden-Powell, together with a photograph of the original item, reproduced in Hamlyn's "History of the Boer War" (London, 1999). Hamlyn credits E.T. Archive, London, for the latter image.






"Stop the War Committee" matchbox stand. At art college we used to off-print from photocopies using paint-thinners to release the ink from the paper. I imagine a similar technique was used here.







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