REBELLION BOX 1915 IN SOUTH AFRICA

  Rebellion Box, original, wood & metal, Booysens Internment Camp, 1915, with supporting contemporary document. Rebellion Box weighs 460 grams, 24.5 cms (length) x 13.7 cms(width) x 13.0 cms (height). Condition: very good. On the underside of the box lid is a dated hand-written note, penned in ink and written in Dutch that reads, in part, '... to my dearest Anna van Heerden from D.S. van Heerden... Booysens Rebellion Camp in the year 1915, 15th March.' Also included is the original 'certifikaat van invryheidstelling' (release certificate), dated 17th Mei, 1915, for the prisoner with official stamps including facsimile signature of the Minister van Justitie and the prisioner's own signature. The Rebellion Box was crafted by a prisoner, David Schalk van Heerden, of the Heilbron district OFS, who interned at the Booysens camp, had taken part in the rebellion of 1914 and had also been previously interned in the Boer POW complex on Bermuda (1900). He was a Boer prisoner of war at the Hawkins Island Camp on Bermuda during the Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902). His prisoner number was 19792.   1915 Overall Condition:  very good  Size:  24.5 cms (length) x 13.7 cms(width) x 13.0 cms (height)