Important South African & International Art, Jewellery and Decorative Arts
Live Auction, 12 October 2015
English, Cape and Colonial Silver, Decorative Arts and Furniture
Lot Estimate
ZAR 10 000 - 15 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 29 557
About this Item
A Boer War prisoner of war violin, F A Truscott, 1899-1900
Notes
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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