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Great Canadian Commemorative Plates Index 1837-1901 - 2 |
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Sudan & Boer War 1898-1902 |
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| Lord Kitchener, The Sirdar, Type 1 - 1898 | Lord Kitchener, Type 2 - 1898 | Lord Kitchener, Type 3 - 1899 |
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| General Sir George White - 1900 | ||
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| General Sir Redvers Buller, Type 1 - 1900 | General Sir Redvers Buller, Type 2 - 1900 | General Sir Redvers Buller, Type 3 - 1900 |
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| General Sir Redvers Buller, Type 4 - 1900 | Generals French, Macdonald, White - 1900 | Joseph Chamberlain - 1899 |
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| Lord Roberts - Type 1 - 1899 | Lord Roberts - Type 2 - 1900 | Lord Roberts - Type 3 - 1900 |
| Lord Roberts - Type 4 - 1900 | Lord Roberts - Type 5 - 1900 | Lord Kitchener & General Buller - 1900 |
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| Col/General Baden-Powell - Type 1 - 1900 | Col/General Baden-Powell - Type 2 - 1900 | |
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| General Hector Macdonald - Type 1 - 1900 | General Hector Macdonald - Type 2 - 1900 | General Gatacre - 1900 |
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| General French - Type 1 - 1900 | General French - Type 2 - 1900 | General French - Type 3 - 1900 |
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| Battle of Paardeberg - Feb 18, 2026 | Boers Surrender at Paardeberg - Feb 27, 2025 | Majuba - Wiping Something off the Slate - 1900 |
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| Mafeking Relieved - May 1900 | Pretoria Relieved - June 1900 | |
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| With Britain, Heart & Soul - Canada - 1900 | Gentleman in Kharki - 1900 | Each Doing His Country's Work - 1900 |
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| The Army - Foley - 1900 | Boer War Gunners - 1900 | Boer War Soldiers - 1900 |
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| Queen Victoria & Her Generals - 1900 | Boer War - Lowe - 1900 | |
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The Boer War - No war before, or since, has produced the blizzard of memorabilia items that the Anglo-Boer War produced, in metal, tin, wood, paper, fabric, and ceramics. Jugs, pitchers, teapots, creamers, cups and saucers, pin trays, of every size and shape were issued, but always bearing the same few transfers, over and over again. The commemorative potters ran out of generals... but never out of new sizes and shapes of ceramics, to press their transfers on to. The plates below are but a smattering of the wide variety of plate styles that were produced. |
Commemorative plates were made to celebrate people, places, and events that once transfixed the psyche of a nation. By buying commemorative plates people could - vicariously - be part of a grand national happening that - for a brief moment - allowed them to escape the trials and tribulations of their daily grind. To understand the amazingly complex layers of history that lie behind each commemorative plate - and raise it far above the merely "pretty" Gallé lamp or a cute Royal Doulton figurine, like the Bag Lady - see: |