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Cigarette Cards and Postcards

Above: Maybe the most famous Boer War era portrait of Botha used on Cigarette cards

Above: The same portrait used on a French Post Card and another Boer War era card

Above: What must be an Immediate post Boer war card from the firm "Major Drapkin & Co, Cigarette specialists, London" of Botha as a statesman. Then a Botha Cigarette "silk" from the post Boer war era

Above: At the start of the 1914 Rebellion on South Africa, the Ex-Soldier, turned Statesman... became a soldier again when he took command of the South African Forces.

Above: Another WW1 era card of Botha and a Boer War Era Glass Slide

 
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