Historic tiles

 This is an album with reproductions of a series of tableaux in tiles from Holland, depicting scenes from the Anglo-Boer war of 1899-1902 (with description of each battle) and portraits of the four Boer Generals concerned. Following tableaux:Battle of Ladysmith, Modderriver, Stormberg, Magersfontein, Colenso, Spioenkop, Paardeberg, Reddersburg Following Generals: Louis Botha, Jacob Coster, Georges de Villiers-Mareuil, Johannes Hermanus Michiel Kock,  Size:Width 35cm Height 49cm.   Old rust marks on outside.  No oversea shipping.    

49 cm x 36 cm, a very large ringbinded book on the Anglo Boer War theme. Die SAL het hierdie aandenkingsalbum byeengebring uit teels uit Holland wat tonele uit die Tweede Vryheidsoorlog van 1899-1902 uitbeeld, asook vier afbeeldings van Boeregeneraals wat betrokke was. Ladysmith, Modderrivier, Stormberg, Magersfontein, Colenso, Spioenkop, Paardeberg, Reddersburg. Louis Botha, Jacob Coster, Kock en De Villebois--Mareuil. Boek is in goeie toestand binne. Die buiteblad voor en agter het vuil kolle op.     Postage and Packaging:    Post Office: R85 Courier: R130  Postnet R135 Shipping includes packaging material and travel costs to the P/O or Courier. International Bidders welcome (Please enquire about postage)  Please see the photo's as part of the description                        

Klein (Harry); Strydom (C.J. Scheepers). (BOER WAR RELATED) Historic Tableaux on Tiles / Historiese Tablo’s op Teëls. Pretoria: South African Airways, Circa 1973. First Edition. Parallel text in Afrikaans and English. "These tableaux were discovered under the wall paper of an old theatre in Rotterdam in the late 1960’s. The tableaux comprising 2000 painted tiles were removed from the walls and carefully checked, restored, varnished and shipped to South Africa where they were  exhibited at the T.P.A. Building in Pretoria. The Theatre in Rotterdam called The Transvalia was built at the end of 1899 at a time of considerable European interest and sympathy for the Boer cause. The first owner of the theatre hit upon the idea of decorating the foyer with tiles on which the heroic deeds of the Boers would be artistically immortalised. The artist Cornelius de Bruin was commissioned to paint the tableaux.". 26pp., fullpage colour ills. Oversized at 350x490mm Tall.