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100% South African

Shire Kerod
Dec 29, 2016
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This week I have decided to focus on South African items. The reason being that we have recently bought some lovely South African items. That's one thing I love about this job, no day is ever the same!

First we have a beautiful Joseph Lawton Cape copper and brass iron C1860.

A selection of wonderful South African books, many different titles to choose from, one being by T.V.Bulpin, Lost Trails of the Transvaal, 1st Edition and signed by the author.

Also on offer a rare Royal Mint, Pretoria caddy spoon c1930s.

A Rorkes Drift pot "E L Molefe C1981"

From the mid-1960s and into the 1980s which was a period of particularly repressive politics in South Africa, the pottery produced by the Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELC) Arts and Crafts Centre at Rorke’s Drift, was hailed as a significant expression of Zulu-Sotho tradition and culture in an idiom that would appeal to western patrons. Utilising western production techniques and for the most part guided by pottery teachers from abroad, the potters innovated their traditional pot making into the crafting of novel forms which retained deep-rooted cultural symbolism. Rorke’s Drift ceramics were the first by black crafters to be acquired for a South African public art collection at a time when black arts and crafts were politically shunned.