Contemporary history experiences of Kallie de Beer: Stories of my grandpa and- mother about the Anglo Boer War. The family link to the diamond related and seventh adventist church de Beers. Farms in the Free State's little towns and trips abroad. Research in contemporary history of South African diplomacy and the change of the former South African Army into a peacekeeping force in Africa and additional academic research in casu open distance e-learning.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

BIGEST HOLE DUG BY HAND FOR DIAMONDS
















From: POLLAPOLLO@aol.com [mailto:POLLAPOLLO@aol.com] Sent: 14 May 2009 01:18 PMTo: De Beer KallieSubject: Re: NEW RUSH DIAMOND MINE

Hi Kallie,
Thank you for your very quick response and for posting my email on Facebook and forwarding it to other possibly informed parties.

Please find enclosed scans of the three albumen photographs by Gray and their close ups, plus a water colour sketch by a Lieutenant Ferrier [believed to be later Captain Louis John George Ferrier 1840-1878] dated 1872, although annotated verso thus;-

Colesburg Kopje. Griqualand West.
Looking from end of South Staging
end of Mount Ararat on left
claims in the blue clay
March 1873

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