“BERMUDA P.O.W. 1911”

“BERMUDA P.O.W. 1911” Bermuda Cedar Walking Stick, apparently by an “Irreconcileable” Anglo Boer War prisoner.

The date, 1911, suggests this to be the work of an “Irreconcileable” who, although refusing to sign the Declaration of Allegiance to the British Crown, remained in Bermuda carving P.O.W. souvenirs long after the end of hostilities.

(By 1903, all prisoners signing a Declaration of Allegiance to the British Crown were released and left Bermuda. “IRRECONCILEABLES” -- those refusing to sign -- eventually were moved fromthe Great Sound to Hamilton, where some found jobs as carpenters and farmers. One is known to have set up a shop there, where he continued making POW items for sale to tourists.)

Head : Boxwood
Length : 35”

# 8002 .................................... SOLD

Size: 8 items

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1911 date indicates the work of an "IRRECONCILEABLE"

a P.O.W. who, in 1903, refused to sign a Declaration of Allegiance to the British Crown. With passage of years the "irreconcileables" were released to Hamilton, Bermuda, where this one remained, selling his hand-crafted P.O.W wares to tourists

"BERMUDA P.O.W....

carved by an Anglo Boer War prisoner held in one of the islands of Bermuda's Great Sound. Prisoners from the Anglo Boer War, in South Afrika, were held there during the war, 1901-1902.