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It is in mint condition and has the full proportions of all biscuit barrels meant for use. It is the only non-pitcher ceramic item of Boer War memorabilia which can rival the cheese dish in size. The only reason it has survived is because it has sturdy construction, with a heavy bail, and a thick metal ring to absorb the opening and closing of the metal lid, so protecting the ceramic barrel itself from abrasion. The picture was happily, wrongly advertised as General Haig, the unpopular butcher of World War I. Few people found it. Had it been correctly identified as Lord Roberts, the most popular general in British History, many more buyers would have lined up, and the price would have been stratospheric.
The floral decoration around Bobs is amazing, but not at all out of character with the age. No modern general would have been comfortable with being surrounded by a bunch of "pansies." Like Canada's General Hillier, who famously spouted: "We are the Canadian Forces, and our job is
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For all its spectacular size this dish has no manufacturer's mark.
The picture decals used on these memorabilia items are almost always the same.
These are the early ones, including that of Lord Kitchener whose image was used before the Boer War, when he won fame during the Sudan campaign in 1898.
Baden-Powell is listed as a Lieutenant-Colonel, not the Major-General he was promoted to, later in 1900.
So the cheese dish was manufactured after December 1899, when Bobs was made Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, but before B-P's promotion, a few months later.
This piece of memorabilia shows again that the Boer War was a popular engagement for British people everywhere in the Empire. The manufacturer clearly expected to sell lots of these to ordinary folks. Main Street was on side with this war.
Unlike the race war against the Muslims that the powerful classes of the white "European" Christian NATO countries orchestrated against Iraq and Afghanistan.
Universally, the overwhelming number of the civilian populations of Britain, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Canada, were strongly against the NATO war against the Muslims in Afghanistan.
Today this cheese dish, festooned with modern NATO generals would be a non-starter. But then everybody knows that, which is why no Afghanistan memorabilia for civilians is manufactured by anyone. Just the odd trinket made for the members of the military, to go alongside their photos of torturing Muslim prisoners, and of the Afghan homes they bombed, shelled, or shot up.
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Unlike so many other ceramic Boer War, and late Victorian memorabilia, which was for display only, this is a huge cheese dish that was designed for use. It is full-sized, as large as any regular cheese dish, and meant to hold a variety of chunks with a large lid to keep the flies away. But someone with foresight chose not to use it, treasuring it as a valuable display item instead. It remains in mint condition. Without doubt those patriotic types who eagerly chose to use them, chipped them or broke them. So few ever would have survived. In over 12 years of sleuthing out Boer War memorabilia, worldwide, it is the only one we have ever seen anywhere. |
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| Cheese Dish, featuring Lord Roberts, Lt. Col. Baden-Powell, and Lord Kitchener - 1900 | |
| Orig. dish - Size - oa 21 x 25 x 14h cm Found - Newton Abbot, UK |
A spectacular biscuit barrel designed for use to hold cookies.
