AUCTIONS IMPERIAL NOVEMBER 2019

A BOER WAR COMMEMORATIVE FOLDING KNIFE

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Start price: $45

Estimated price: $100 - $200

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Description

The brass grip-plates bearing the seals of the former South African republics, Orange Free State and Transvaal, with the Boer motto: EENDRACHT MAAKT MACHTE (UNITY MAKES POWER.) Reverse with well-detailed portraits of Boer statesman and hero, Paul Kruger, president of the South African Republic 1883-1902, and Christiaan de Wet, general and rebel. The two blades lightly pitted. First quarter of the 20th century. Overall length open 17.5 cm.

Condition II