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A Dutch satirical board game of the Second Boer War

Boer - en Rooinekspel.
Amsterdam: Gebroeders Koster, c.1902. Chromolithograph. Sheet 625 x 850mm.
Stock #:  24484

£450.00

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Description

A propaganda 'goose game', the course running around the heads of a grimacing British soldier ('Rooinek' being Afrikaans for 'red-neck') and a smiling Boer, who stand nose to nose. According to the rules (written in Dutch) the soldier has to race to Pretoria, the Boer to Cape Town, with various penalties listed.

Condition:

Original folds, laid on archival linen.

References:

RIJKSMUSEUM: RP-P-OB-201.528.

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