Important South African & International Art, Jewellery and Decorative Arts

Live Auction, 12 October 2015

English, Cape and Colonial Silver, Decorative Arts and Furniture

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  • A Boer War prisoner of war violin, F A Truscott, 1899-1900
  • A Boer War prisoner of war violin, F A Truscott, 1899-1900
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A Boer War prisoner of war violin, F A Truscott, 1899-1900

the right hand rib inscribed 'Gemaakt in Gevangenis *e Eshowe. Zululand voor F.A. Truscott thans politike gevangene voor het n***n opnemen ten gunste ger Boeren in den oorlog van 1899-1901.', distress, 64,5cm long

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FA Truscott was a prisoner at the Eshowe Prison where he kept a diary. It is recorded in the diary of JJA Prozesky that a way of keeping prisoners' spirits up and of passing the time was by singing patriotic, sentimental, philosophic and melancholic songs. The singing was accompanied by violins built by prisoners from a book which they had ordered.

Wassermann, Johannes Michiel. (2005) The Natal Afrikaner and the Anglo-Boer War, The University of Pretoria, Thesis

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