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Auction: 24025 - Historical Documents Featuring the Major David Cecil Underwood Jr Collection of Royal Visits to India 1876-1906
Lot: 322A

South Africa
Boer War
1899 Souvenir Programme printed on silk "Presented by Mrs. Langtry on the Occasion of the 100th Performance of the 'Degenerates' at the Garrick Theatre" incorporating Rudyard Kipling's "A gentleman in kharki" and his autograph text of "The Absent-minded Beggar", cloth commemorative handkerchiefs of this poem (staining), a cloth map of the Transvaal with portraits of President Kruger and Joseph Chamberlain and a silk handkerchief detailing the "Engagements of XVIII Hussars, South Africa", all folded (4)
1899-1900 Programme printed on silk "Presented by Mrs. Langtry on the occasion of the 100th performance of the 'Degenerates' at the Garrick Theatre", incorporating the verses of the Absent-minded Beggar and an image of "A gentleman in kharki" by R. Caton Woodville; a presentation chocolate tin from Queen Victoria to the troops for new year 1900, and a red silk ribbon commemorating the Relief of Ladysmith, 2nd Batt. (D.C.O.) Middlesex (3)
1899 October 3, Press Telegram dated a week prior to the war beginning on 10 October, sent to the Echo London on a ZAR telegraph form, with 1/4d in stamps cancelled at Pretoria, advising from Bloemfontein that "artillery left yesterday for Van Reenens Pass, other detachments for Bethulie, Boshof or Kimberley...All able bodied men called out". A dramatic opening page to a collection of Anglo Boer War material
1900-1901 Document in Dutch signed by General P.J. Joubert as Commandant General of the ZAR at Upper Tugela, witnessing an oath of loyalty by P.J. Cloete on his appointment as a Veld Cornet in the District Ermelo. With printed Standing Orders regarding entry or exit issued by the Provost Marshal at Lydenburg in March 1901 (mounted on card with annotated photographs on the reverse), three manuscript receipts issued at Badfontein re provisions for Boer families, one to be "taken under a flag of truce" to their farms, and a letter from a Boer POW at Green :Point to the OC Badfontein Camp enquiring after the welfare of his family (5)

1899-1901, a Boer War collection including 1899 Souvenir Programme printed on silk "Presented by Mrs. Langtry on the Occasion of the 100th Performance of the 'Degenerates' at the Garrick Theatre" (2) incorporating Rudyard Kipling's "A gentleman in kharki" and his autograph text of "The Absent-minded Beggar", cloth commemorative handkerchiefs of this poem (staining), a cloth map of the Transvaal with portraits of President Kruger and Joseph Chamberlain and a silk handkerchief detailing the "Engagements of XVIII Hussars, South Africa", a presentation chocolate tin from Queen Victoria to the troops for new year 1900, and a red silk ribbon commemorating the Relief of Ladysmith, 2nd Batt. (D.C.O.) Middlesex;
Also 1899 October 3, Press Telegram dated a week prior to the war beginning on 10 October, sent to the Echo London on a ZAR telegraph form, with 1/4d in stamps cancelled at Pretoria, advising from Bloemfontein that "artillery left yesterday for Van Reenens Pass, other detachments for Bethulie, Boshof or Kimberley...All able bodied men called out"; and further manuscript material including 1900-1901 Document in Dutch signed by General P.J. Joubert as Commandant General of the ZAR at Upper Tugela, witnessing an oath of loyalty by P.J. Cloete on his appointment as a Veld Cornet in the District Ermelo. With printed Standing Orders regarding entry or exit issued by the Provost Marshal at Lydenburg in March 1901 (mounted on card with annotated photographs on the reverse), three manuscript receipts issued at Badfontein re provisions for Boer families, one to be "taken under a flag of truce" to their farms, and a letter from a Boer POW at Green :Point to the OC Badfontein Camp enquiring after the welfare of his family.
A superb group.


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Estimate
£500 to £600

Starting price
£350