Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) items were recently sold on auction by Stephan Welz and Co. in Rosebank, Johannesburg. The items all came from the estate of the late Dr. Ryno GREENWALL who died in 2007. The highest price paid was R61 600 for a small wooden cigarette box. The catalogue valuation was R16 000. The lid of the box was decorated with a carving of the Longwood Camp buildings on St. Helena Island, where many Boer prisoners-of-war were kept. The name Longwood is also carved, as well as "Souvenir de St. Helena, 1902" and "FAIT-PAR-IN-FR-DE-GUERRE".
Another small cigarette box had the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek coat-of-arms carved on it, as well as the island's name and the year 1902. It also had "Gemaakt door KGV B.J. BEUNK. This fetched R15 680 and had a catalogue valuation of R12 000. This would be Barend Jan BEUNK who was captured at Elandslaagte on 21 Oct 1899 at age 27, and was sent to Deadwood Camp. There is a photo at the National Archives of Luitenant B.J. BEUNK on St. Helena, dated 1900. He died in 1948, and was married to Francoise Agatha Ludia HOLTZ.
A round wooden snuff box fetched R5 520. It is decorated with a horseshoe, an elephant and the words "Aan Moeder, Ceylon, 1901". A smoking pipe, made from bone, and its wooden stand was also sold, together with a wooden egg for darning socks. These were from Ceylon in 1902 and sold for R19 040. An oil painting of the Greenpoint Camp, painted by Helen WALLACE in 1900, sold for R39 200. A steel trunk belonging to a Dutch volunteer, Herman Wilhelm VON BELOW, who fought on the Boer side, fetched R3 450 betaal. It was painted with the words "H. Von Below, POW, Springs, Transvaal". He was captured in June 1900 and eventually sent to St. Helena. He was released on 01 August 1902.