Last Sunday morning I was watching a series on the History Channel taped during the week called Porn Stars with my nine year old son. Last Sunday morning I was watching a series on the History Channel taped during the week called Porn Stars with my nine year old son. Sorry spell check doing its […]
This statue of Nelson Mandela was commissioned by Tokyo Sexwale through the Sexwale Family Foundation and was created by the renowned South African artist and sculptor Jean Doyle. Returning to Franschhoek on Monday this week with spring in the air and summer on the way, I stopped off to admire the statue of Nelson Mandela […]
According to family tradition it was discovered in a crate washed up on a beach at Port Beaufort sometime in the 1840’s. Sourced from the family who needed the money for the children’s university education it stole the show at the latest Strauss & Co. auction sale held in Cape Town on Monday the 21st […]
Remember back in the 80’s when Scope magazine had those little boxes, stars and circles placed strategically on the breasts of those stunning models. All of this in order to get around the dreaded publications board and the old conservative apartheid government. Remember back in the 80’s when Scope magazine had those little boxes, stars […]
Have you ever wondered where all the art goes when the auction doors are closed? This thought was instigated by song lyrics I have heard but cannot place, along the lines of ‘Where does all the money go when the doors are closed’. Much of the art sold worldwide ends up in private hands, museums […]
This brass measure stamped for the Government of the Traansvaal is one of a set of three. What makes it so historically interesting is the fact that it would have been made in England at a time when the Zuid- Afrikaansche Repubiek (ZAR) was led by President Paul Kruger. When gold was discovered on Gerhardus […]