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SLAVE REGISTRY OFFICE, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
Slave Certificate
Description:
These are to certify that Mr Jacobus Petrus Roux ...(?)stein having sold to Mr. Egbert Andries Buyskes residing in Cape Town as appears by a deed dated this day, and deposited in this Office a female Slave, named Regina old about 34 years born in the colony, by trade a housemaid.
Transcribed and duly registered as the Property of said Mr. E.A. Buyskes.
Cape of Good Hope, February 3, 1827.
On laid and watermarked paper (G.Ward 1824) with a VOC blind stamp at the upper righthand corner, signs of having been mounted in a album with stamp hinges on the back
Slavery was abolished in the Cape Colony in 1833.
Details:
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Size: 315 x 193 mm
- Lot No: 302
- Hammer Price: $840
- Bids: 2
- Visits: 29
- Estimate: $1000/1250
- Reserve: $750
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Seller Details:
- Name: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
- Address: P.O. Box 186, Constantia, (Cape Town), 7848, South Africa
- Contact Person: Paul Mills
- Country of Origin: South Africa
- Email: africana@clarkes.co.za
- Website: www.clarkes.co.za
- Preferred Payment Methods: Visa & Mastercard, Bank tranfers
- Trade Association: ABA - ILAB, SABDA
- Additional Information:
Phone: 0027 21 794 0600
Founded in 1958, Clarkes specialises in Africana and general antiquarian books, prints, maps and ephemera. Africana Catalogues are issued four times a year. All subjects are covered including, African exploration and travel, missionary endeavour, ethnography, Bushmen and rock art, big-game hunting, military history, the Anglo Boer War, Boer War ephemera, Zulu War and the First World War in East Africa and South West Africa, natural history (botany, ornithology, etc.), Mining (particularly diamonds and gold), Natal & Zululand, Namibia, art & architecture, literature & politics. Also Maps, prints and ephemera. We offer an active search service for all antiquarian and secondhand books.
