We have a new world record for the most distant record of a
Biele showcase. A recent email from Elsie
in South Africa shared the following information:
“I am currently in possession of a glass and
oak showcase, produced by the company of Charles F Biele, with the original
engraved brass plate on the front and the name of the company painted on the
bottom of the showcase.
This display cabinet was used by my grandfather
in his general dealer shop in Calvinia, Northern Cape, South Africa. The
cabinet most probably arrived in Cape Town by steamship and was via railway to
Calvinia.
The cabinet has been in use in a shop until
1990, and after that has been in my home. It will now be sold to once again be
used as a shop display cabinet in the little town of Stanford in the south
western Cape.”
And he shared the following photo:
And here is where Calvinia is located:
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