Southern Africa

SA 162

3 1961 menus from the Union-Castle Line featuring native South Africans.

Price: $200.00

SA 161

Fascinating collection of 100 postcards of South Africa from 1900-1915. Sent by the same man, to a friend in Paris. All written in Esperanto.

Price: $1500.00

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20 early postcards of native South Africa. Shown are working in mines, rickshaw boys, native police, native servants, hut building, native school, witch doctor, Ginginhlovu Station, native dance, warriors, mining boys on the Rand, Kidd's Beach

Price: $600.00

SA 159

Four postcards of colonial South Africa. Shown are 1907 Port Elizabeth, Johnnesburg an Pretoria, South African forces in WW1.

Price: $80.00

SA 158

Set of 5 early French chromos on the Boer War by coffee confectioner Chicoree Extra.

Price: $100.00

AML 060

Letter from Wilson Reid The Truth 2x2 Cooneyite missionary in Rhodesia. Four page autograph letter, signed, written in pencil on 5" x 8" sheets by Wilson Reid. Dated 5-9-1920. Wilson Reid was a missionary with the unnamed religious movement referred to as The Truth, the Two by Twos, Cooneyites, and other names. The letter is addressed "Dear Sister." There is no envelope with it. Reid begins by describing his new situation: Hugh McKay and I are in our own hired house in a little town in Northern Rhodesia not far from the Congo border. Lodgings are scarce and expensive, too. Places for meetings are out of the question so an empty house with a good front room served the double purpose. We got boxes and planks and washed up what old tabled etc we found on the premises and you would be surprised to see how meetings are. He reports that their first meeting was not well attended, but they later learned they were competing with another event "of more attraction." AML 060And "tonight we cannot have a meeting because the English ch[urch] parson is here on a visit and had we collided with him we would have done more harm than good." He next reports that he has written a letter to George Walker and was sorry to hear of Walker not being well. "I hope however he will be able to have enough strength to keep going and even if his body gets down and if he can only keep his heart and spirit for [illegible] it will be an inspiration to others." The rest of the letter goes on in a similar vein, with reflections on aging, and how it is important not to just stop doing anything as you get old and action gets harder. You should still do as much as you can, even if it is only to urge others onward. He concludes: "I do not mind aging in it, but I don't want to die out of it and when should I come to the place where I am not fit to put in a whole year at a stretch I hope I will put in every year what I can...and so to make the most of myself. You may think this a strange letter....These have been my thoughts for a good while and when Adam Hutchinson came here and we talked of it much that I had thought was confirmed by him. My thoughts began to take a more definite form and I feel sure the line I have spoken along here is the right one. Yours in Him, Wilson Reid."

Price: $150.00

AML 060From Wikipedia: Two by Twos (often known as The Truth by its members) is an international, home-based new religious movement that has its origins in Ireland at the end of the 19th century. Among members, the church is more usually referred to as "The Truth", "Meetings", "the workers and friends", or "The Way". Those outside the church refer to it as "Two by Twos", "The Black Stockings", "No-name Church", "Cooneyites", "Workers and Friends", or "Christians Anonymous". Church ministers are itinerant and work in groups of two, hence the name "Two by Twos". The church's registered names include "Christian Conventions" in the United States, "Assemblies of Christians" in Canada, "The Testimony of Jesus" in the United Kingdom, "Kristna i Sverige" in Sweden, and "United Christian Conventions" in Australia. These organization names are used only for registration purposes and are not used by members. The church was founded in 1897 in Ireland by William Irvine, an evangelist with the interdenominational Faith Mission. Irvine began independently preaching a return to the method of itinerant ministry he claimed was set forth in Matthew 10. Church growth was rapid, AML 060spreading outside Ireland. Irvine eventually began preaching a new order in which the hierarchy that had developed within the church would have no placement. This teaching became controversial within the church and led to his expulsion by church overseers around 1914. One of the church's most prominent evangelists, Edward Cooney, was expelled a decade after Irvine. The church then became much less visible to outsiders for the next half-century. Publication of several articles and books, increased news coverage, and the appearance of the Internet have since opened the church to wider scrutiny. The church does not explicitly publish any doctrinal statements, claiming these must be orally imparted by its ministers, referred to as "workers". Doctrine of the church teaches that salvation is reached by attending the group's home meetings, accepting the preaching of its itinerant, unsalaried ministry workers, and "professing". (See Terminology). Whereas some other Christian sects believe in faith through salvation, the Two by Twos teach that salvation is not achieved through faith alone, but achieved only through a combination of faith and "works". Works are described as selfless good deeds, which are in accordance with the teachings of Jesus Christ.

SA 157

French press photo of a 1930’s disturbance at the Johannesburg mines. Text on reverse. B

Price: $60.00

SA 155

Early postcard of native gardening in South Africa. B

Price: $50.00

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The Transvaal Campaign. A series of Six Telling Incidents in Colored Relief Models, by Rafael Tuck & Sons. All but the last set of pieces (Field Ambulance at work on the Veldt) are present and in remarkable condition, because they are contained in the original cover and never been used. Almost impossible to find and in this condition. Very rare. B

Price: $600.00

SA 154

7 postcards of South African types. B

Price: $180.00