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Coins and bank notes being sought by the Balson Holdings Family Trust at this link
Extensive Web Site TEXT MAP at this link
April 2008 Voyages to & from the Cape of Good Hope with an account of a journey into the interior of S Africa (1832) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
April 2008 Gospel among the Bechuanas (1885) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
April 2008 In the Kraals of South Africa (1903) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
April 2008 Researches in South Africa (1828) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
April 2008 A "hut tax token" imposition made on Africans by the British South African Company in  the early 1900 - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
March 2008 North Africa powder horn (1800s) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
March 2008 Voyages to & from the Cape of Good Hope with an account of a journey into the interior of S Africa (1830) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
March 2008 Travels in South Africa, undertaken at the Request of the Missionary Society - A Review  (1815) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
March 2008 Journal of Travels in South Africa (1834) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
March 2008 1892 Kruger Double Shafted Pond - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
March 2008 Memorials of South Africa (1841) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
February 2008 Hints on emigration to the Cape of Good Hope (1821)  - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
February 2008 Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa (1890)  - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
February 2008 Missionary Chronicle Magazine (1857)  - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
February 2008 Journal of Travels in South Africa (1840)  - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
February 2008 The Cape Records relative to the condition and treatment of the native tribes of South Africa from an inquiry (1841)  - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
February 2008 Place names of the Orange Free State (1922)  - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
February 2008 A Question of Color (1895)  - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
January 2008 The Bombshell Poems (Ladysmith, 1900)  - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
January 2008 Land Grant signed by the Governor Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere (1887) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
January 2008 Colonial Boundary Occupied by Emigrant Framer 1847 - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
January 2008 Sketch Map of New Boundary of Cape of Good Hope 1847 - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
January 2008 Journey to Lattakoo in South Africa (1834) - fifth edition - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
January 2008 Journal of Travels in South Africa - second abridged edition - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
January 2008 Title deed Causeway Fishmarkets, Cape Town (1878) - signed by Sir Frere - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
October 2007 Tokens of the Transkei (2007) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2007 Popery, Ancient and Modern 1886 - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2007 A Journal of a Visit to South Africa 1821 - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2007 Gospel among the Bechuanas (signed first edition) 1846 - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2007 Histoire Moderne (Modern History) 1775 Volume 16 - Africa - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2007 Hottentot Venus (Signed) 2003 - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
August 2007 'n Griekwa "ietsigeit" (Things about the Griqua) - 3 copies acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
August 2007 Uit die geskiedenis van Griekwaland-Oos (1949) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
August 2007 Harpers Magazine - complete magazine Volume XLVI....December 1872 to May 1873 - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
July 2007 Memoir respecting the Kaffers, Hottentots and Bosjemans (2 volumes) (1846) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
July 2007 Illustrated Library of Travel Exploration and Adventure (1873) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
July 2007 Set of six key Cape of Good Hope yearly Blue Books - 1879-1906 - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
July 2007 Library of Travel Exploration and Adventure, S Africa (1872) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
July 2007 Life in the Diamond Fields Slavery and Torture (1873 article) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
July 2007 Claim to the Country (Research on the Bushmen) 2007 - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2007 British war map of the Griquatown region (March 1899) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2007 Copies of extracts of any engagements subsisting between this Country (Great Britain) and the States of Native Tribes in South Africa (1884) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2007 Travels in the interior of South Africa (Signed by I Schapera) (1953) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2007 The Concentration Camps in South Africa - Napier Devitt (1941)- acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2007 Second Voyage dans l'interieur de L'Afrique  (French Edition) (1790) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2007 Voyage de Monsieur Le Vaillant dans L' Interieur de L'Afrique (1790) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2007 The Ladysmith Bombshell - 1st January 1900 - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2007 South African Mission London Missionary Society (1803) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2007 The Transkeian Native Territories - Historical Records (1923) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2007 Return to an address of the House of Lords - Griqua Treaties 1834 - 1882 (1883) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2007 Jubelfees-gedenkboek van die Gemeente Grikwastad (1932) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2007 The Touwfontein Letters - William Porter 1992 - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
May 2007 Scenes and Services in South Africa (Presentation copy signed by Moffat) 1876 - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
May 2007 Six letters on the Church question (signed by John Campbell) 1840 - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
May 2007 Journey to Lattakoo in South Africa (1835) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
May 2007 Evangelical Magazine (1846) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
May 2007 Evangelical Magazine (1805) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
May 2007 Evangelical Magazine (1845) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
May 2007 The Diamond Advertiser - Kimberley 29 July 1871 - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
May 2007 Evangelical Magazine - Missionary Chronicle Vol XXIV (1816) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
April 2007 Cry the beloved country (signed limited edition) 1987 - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
April 2007 London Missionary Society Magazine (1841) Various - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
April 2007 Journal Residence Cape of Good Hope, SOUTH AFRICA (1848) Charles Bunbury - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
April 2007 The Present State of the Cape of Good Hope and the Hottentots (1770) Peter Kolben - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
April 2007 Compendium of South African History and Geography (1873) George Theal - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
March 2007 1816 - British Colonial Rule - title deed for land bordering Green Market Square - Cape Town - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
March 2007 1877 - British Colonial Rule - title deed at Katkop division of Calvinia - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
March 2007 Nelson Mandela's Signature with COA from Nelson Mandela Foundation - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
March 2007 Cradle Songs of Many Nations (1882 - only edition) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
February 2007 Complete set of 1/-, 6d and 3d James Cole Franklin Store token coins - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
February 2007 Long Walk to Freedom (First Edition - signed by Nelson Mandela) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
February 2007 Wortschatz Der Khoi-Khoin (Namaqua-Hottentotten) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
February 2007 Four extremely rare Durban Club Tokens - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
January 2007 Memoir respecting the Kaffers, Hottentots and Bosjemans (1846 - First edition) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
January 2007 The Kafir, the Hottentot, and the frontier farmer (1853 - First edition) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
October 2006 The Life Of Africaner, A Namacqua Chief, Of South Africa (1837 - Second edition hard copy edition) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
October 2006 Travels in Various Parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, During a Series of Thirty Years and Upwards (1790) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
October 2006 They came our way (1974 Hard Copy) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
October 2006 The Life Of Africaner, A Namacqua Chief, Of South Africa (1833 First edition hard copy) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
(This is another copy of the same extremely rare book purchased on-line).
October 2006 The Life Of Africaner, A Namacqua Chief, Of South Africa (1832 Hard Copy) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 Original Nieuw Griqualand title deed signed by Adam Kok III (1869) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 Daniel and Hyman 2/- - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 Kimberley Hotel 6d and 1/- - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 Tokens of Mozambique (2006) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 The Griqua Captaincy of Philippolis, 1826 - 1861 (2002) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 van Amsterdam tot Noordkaap (2006) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 The Griqua of the Northern Cape - land ownership, identity and leadership (2006) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (1977) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 The Cape Colour Question - A Historical Survey (1927) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 Beloved Partner, Mary Moffat of Kuruman (1989) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 "Apprenticeship at Kuruman being the journals and letters of Robert and Mary Moffat" (1951) - presentation copy acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 Races of Men: A fragment (1850) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 Weapons of Peace (1995) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 Groep Sonder Grense (1984) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 Death in Pella: Mortuary rituals in a Namaqualand Reserve (Annals of the S African Museum) (1994) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 Post Carts in Southern Natal and East Griqualand (Natalia) (2001) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 Structure and process in the local govt of Pella (Annals of the S African Museum) (2003) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 Death in Pella: Mortuary rituals in a Namaqualand Reserve (Annals of the S African Museum) (1994) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 Structure and process in the local govt of Pella (Annals of the S African Museum) (2003) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 Kuruman Moffat Mission (1987) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 The Mission Station at Griquatown 1801 - 1821 (1997) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 Uit die geskiedenis van Griekwaland-Oos (1949) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 Afrikaanse Kloek Goed (c2002) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 Kloek-Goed Twee (c2003) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 Adam Kloek - Goed (c2005) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 Die Behae van God (c2005) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 Wasempies Geluk (c2005) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2006 Drome van die Jongmeisie (c2005) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
August 2006 Kuruman Moffat Mission (1983) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
August 2006 Davis' Bulawayo Directory and handbook on Matabeleland (1896) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
August 2006 Livingstone's Explorations in South Africa  (1858) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
August 2006 Siege of Mafeking 2/- bank note (1900) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust 
August 2006 On the high flats of Natal (1984) (1875) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
August 2006 Letter signed by Robert Moffat (1875) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
August 2006 QUEEN'S MERCY H6 (chrondite) METEORITE which fell near Matatiele (East Griqualand) in 1927 acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
July 2006 Document signed by Queen Victoria (1877) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
July 2006 Narrative of a Journey to the Zoolu Country, in South Africa (1836) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
July 2006 Valuable collection of eight original land titles for erfs in Kokstad (East Griqualand) 1884 - 1901 acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
July 2006 Against These Three (1947) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
July 2006 The European Magazine (Vol XXIX) January - June 1796 acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
July 2006 Journal Residence Cape of Good Hope, SOUTH AFRICA (1848) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
July 2006 1790 print of Hottentots Marriage (Bankes) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
July 2006 David's Story (2000) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
July 2006 Cape Good Hope 1652 - 1702 The First Fifty Years of Dutch Colonisation as seen by the callers (1971) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
July 2006 Land title for the farm of Amandelsboom (1860) - signed by Sir George Grey 
June 2006 A Hunter's Life in South Africa (1850 - second edition) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2006 The White Chief of the Caffres (1887) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2006 Zulu Land, life among the Zulu-Kafirs (1864) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2006 An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa (1802) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2006 The Tribes near Delagoa Bay (15 page extract from 1833 Royal National Geographic Society publication) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2006 1888 Mombasa Rupee Silver Coin acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2006 Among the Matabele (1894) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
May 2006 Histoire Moderne Des Africains (1769) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
May 2006 History of the World (including Africa) (1682) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
May 2006 A Hunter's Life in South Africa (1858) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
May 2006 The Deed of Assignment signed by the Who's Who of South Africa in 1907 acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
May 2006 Ladysmith Lyre contemporary copy (1901) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
May 2006 Cape of Adventure (1912) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
May 2006 Piet Retief's original land title (1823) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
May 2006 The Life Of Africaner, A Namacqua Chief, Of South Africa (1832 - First edition soft cover) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
April 2006 The romance of a South African village (c 1940) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
April 2006 Oom Paul's People (1899) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
April 2006 A Narrative of a Visit to the Mauritius and South Africa (1844) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
April 2006 Dr Atherstone, Man of many facets (2000) three volumes acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
April 2006 Bechuanaland Border Police 6d (1893)  acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
March 2006 "Old King Cole" James Cole of Riverside (2006)  acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
March 2006 The Transkei (1918)  acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
March 2006 South African Coins and Patterns (2006) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
February 2006 Binoculars used in the Boer War acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
February 2006 Galloping Jack (1937) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
February 2006 A talk on Old Umzimkulu (1954) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
January 2006 Historic Griqua Buffalo Horn Powder Flask (c1800) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
January 2006 Travels into the Interior Parts of South Africa (1790) - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
December 2005 Travels in South Africa (second edition) 1815 - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
December 2005 De Beers Consolidated Mines 1/- "Lion" token acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
December 2005 Article Coins "THE INVESTMENT" of the 21st Century by Scott Balson
December 2005 Khoikhoi and the founding of White South Africa acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
December 2005 Wild Sports of Southern Africa by Captain William Cornwallis Harris (1852) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
December 2005 Montagu Divisional Council Day Tokens acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
December 2005 Montagu Bank £5 Bank Note acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
December 2005 The War in South Africa 1899 - 1900 by the German General Staff acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
November 2005 Are Tokens "Coins"? article by Scott Balson
November 2005 MPEG Video Clips - story telling, Griqua folk lore etc now on-line
November 2005 In Darkest Africa (Two Volumes) by Henry Stanley (1890) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust 
November 2005 Extremely rare receipt for Slaves from the Slave Registry Office acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
November 2005 Cape of Good Hope Land Grant dated 1715 acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
November 2005 Cape of Good Hope Land Grant dated 1895 (the historic title deed to Simonstown Naval Base) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
November 2005 South Africa and the Transvaal War - a six volume set by Louis Creswicke covering the Zulu wars and the boer war acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
November 2005 Several De Beers Consolidated Mines tokens (Kimberley) from the 1800s acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
November 2005 The Story of Hottentots Holland  acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
November 2005 The Boer War - a 68 page booklet on uniforms used during the boer war acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
November 2005 Records of south-eastern Africa by renowned historian George Theal (Complete set of nine volumes all first editions) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
November 2005 The Kimberley Hotel 1/- token from the 1800s acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
November 2005 The extremely rare 1893 1/- Bechuanaland Border Police Canteen Token acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
November 2005 Article by Scott Balson - The biggest hoax in South African numismatics
Spink now support Balson's findings that the Griqua Town coins never circulated in 1815/16
November 2005 Queens South Africa Medal with Relief of Ladysmith, Tranvaal and Tugela Heights bars acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
October 2005 Several Mafeking Mail siege slips acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
October 2005 Complete set of 1947-1964 South African Crowns in UNC acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
October 2005 "Travel in South Africa - a second journey"  (First Edition 1822) by Rev John Campbell acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
October 2005 "Munte en die Mens" by Matthy Esterhusen acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
October 2005 "Notes of the coinage of the ZAR Repubic" by J T Becklake (with signed letter) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
October 2005 Updates to History of the Griqua Nation and Nomansland
October 2005 From Ox-Wagon to Motor Car in East Griqualand - Manuscript by Robert Percy Larkan -  acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
October 2005 Bank of Africa (Pietermaritzburg) cheque dated 1881 acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
October 2005 Very rare land grant dated 29th June 1718  acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
October 2005 British Empire Uniform used in the Boer War acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2005 Orange Free State "Postal Bank Notes - 1/6d, 7/6d and 10/- acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2005 1876 Pietermaritzburg "Franklin Penny" acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2005 Two books and several documents from Justice Tom Mullins the researcher behind the book on the Mount Currie Express stamps - acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2005 Pretoria £10 and £20 ZAR bank notes acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2005 Cape of Good Hope Land Grant - dated 6th January 1677 (one of the first issued) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2005 Debate with Spink over the Griqua Town coins
September 2005 1890 undated Proof Griqua Town penny pattern acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2005 Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, by David Livingstone - transcribed to ebook on-line
September 2005 Limited edition (30 copies) book "Strachan and Co Pty Limited" by Milner Snell (two copies) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2005 Limited edition (150 copies) book "Early History of Adam Kok and East Griqualand 1863-1875" by C G de Bruin (number 25) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2005 Cape of Good Hope Land Grant - dated 10th July 1730 acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
September 2005 Following correspondence with the South African Mint the Mint removes their on-line reference to the Griqua Town coins being South Africa's first circulating currency. Old link here (no longer works).
September 2005 Diary of a Boer Commando - Deneys Reitz (Son of the Transvaal's State Secretary - F W Reitz) A fascinating e-book giving the insight into the life of a boer during the boer war ... with graphics and maps added.
August 2005 The mask stripped off Rev John Campbell by Rev Robert Moffat in his private (now published) letters
August 2005 Rare German East Africa siege money page restructured
August 2005 Boer Prisoner of War Bank Notes acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
August 2005 Rare Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek coins and bank notes page restructured
August 2005 Rare Griqua coins and bank notes page restructured
August 2005 1872 Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek Een Pond Note acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
July 2005 Pair of Mount Currie Express (East Griqualand) Stamps (1874) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
July 2005 Added over ten contemporary Boer war books and very rare documents to the web site
July 2005 FOUR Marshall Hole Currency Cards (Bulawayo)- August to October 1900 acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
July 2005 The ten rarest South African numismatic pieces in the Balson Holdings Family Trust collection
July 2005 Article by Scott Balson "Great (S African numismatic) investments of the future"
July 2005 Original family photograph of Paul Kruger and his wife - with what are believed to be Oom Paul's fingerprints clearly visible.
July 2005 The original Proclamation broadsheet declaring the Resignation of Mr. S.J.P. Kruger, dated Pretoria, 14th September, 1900 with printed signature of Roberts, Field-Marshall, Commander-in-Chief in South Africa.
July 2005 16 Page Despatch by General Lord Kitchener, dated 8th March, 1901, relative to Military Operations in South Africa.
July 2005 A number of original historic telegrams from 1901 between Commandant Louis Botha and Lord Kitchener in an early, unsuccessful attempt to end the Boer war.
July 2005 1874 Coarse Beard Burgerpond acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
July 2005 Aerial Map showing the route taken by the Griquas down the Ongeluksnek Pass in 1862
July 2005 Aerial Map of South Africa showing region the Strachan and Co trade tokens were accepted as currency from 1874 - 1932
June 2005 Second variety Durban Club 6d acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2005 Three ZAR 1901 (Pietersburg) One Pound Bank Notes acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2005 One Rupien Bank Note (1917) - German East Africa acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2005 Book: "Through the Dark Continent (1879)" acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2005 Book: "How I found Livingstone (1872)" acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2005 Updated biographies of important early S African missionaries (Campbell, Moffat and Livingstone)
June 2005 Book: "Apprenticeship at Kuruman being the journals and letters of Robert and Mary Moffat" acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2005 Two Books: Travels in the interior of Southern Africa by Burchell - 1967 reprint acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2005 Map Book: The Times war map of South Africa (c1900)
June 2005 Site Map updated
June 2005 Three ZAR 1900 (Pretoria) Bank Notes £1, £5 and £50 acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2005 Article: The dangers of buying through eBay - eBay's lack of interest when things go wrong
June 2005 Update to ""Kence" the forgotten South African currency"
June 2005 Update to "History of the Griqua Nation"
June 2005 Update to "Related history of the Strachan family"
June 2005 Two 1916 Fifteen Rupee "Tabora Pounds" (German East Africa) acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
June 2005 Book: "A Hunter's Life in South Africa" acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
May 2005 Mafeking Siege Note acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
May 2005 Book: "More Annals of Natal" acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
April 2005 Book: Woodcut Vignettes from "Travel in the interior of South Africa" acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
April 2005 Updates to History of the Griqua Nation and Nomansland
March 2005 1864 Durban Bank £5 note acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
March 2005 History and background of the Veld Pond - part one, part two
March 2005 Veld Pond acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
February 2005 Book: "Walks of Usefulness" (First Edition 1812) by Rev John Campbell acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust 
February 2005 Book: "Travels in South Africa" (First Edition 1815) by Rev John Campbell acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust
January 2005 Book: "Money in South Africa" acquired by the Balson Holdings Family Trust