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Lot 89
BRITISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1901-1904
Closed9 October 2012
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BRITISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1901-1904
Humorous pictorial Christmas card ('There was an old woman of Wilts ...') signed by Robert Falcon SCOTT, Ernest Henry SHACKLETON, Edward Wilson, Charles Royds, Albert Armitage, Thomas Hodgson, Louis Bernacchi, Hartley Ferrar, Michael Barne, Reginald Koettlitz and Reginald Skelton, 5 January 1902, annotated 'Xmas dinner in Antarctic Pack', on a bifolium, 90 x 125mm (some spotting to outer pages); with two photographs from the expedition, showing a sledging party and Discovery in the pack ice; and a facsimile of a signed menu from the same expedition.
On 5 January 1902, when the card was signed, Discovery was four days away from making her landfall on the Antarctic continent at Cape Adare, inaugurating the Antarctic careers of Scott and Shackleton. (4)
Humorous pictorial Christmas card ('There was an old woman of Wilts ...') signed by Robert Falcon SCOTT, Ernest Henry SHACKLETON, Edward Wilson, Charles Royds, Albert Armitage, Thomas Hodgson, Louis Bernacchi, Hartley Ferrar, Michael Barne, Reginald Koettlitz and Reginald Skelton, 5 January 1902, annotated 'Xmas dinner in Antarctic Pack', on a bifolium, 90 x 125mm (some spotting to outer pages); with two photographs from the expedition, showing a sledging party and Discovery in the pack ice; and a facsimile of a signed menu from the same expedition.
On 5 January 1902, when the card was signed, Discovery was four days away from making her landfall on the Antarctic continent at Cape Adare, inaugurating the Antarctic careers of Scott and Shackleton. (4)
BRITISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1901-1904
Humorous pictorial Christmas card ('There was an old woman of Wilts ...') signed by Robert Falcon SCOTT, Ernest Henry SHACKLETON, Edward Wilson, Charles Royds, Albert Armitage, Thomas Hodgson, Louis Bernacchi, Hartley Ferrar, Michael Barne, Reginald Koettlitz and Reginald Skelton, 5 January 1902, annotated 'Xmas dinner in Antarctic Pack', on a bifolium, 90 x 125mm (some spotting to outer pages); with two photographs from the expedition, showing a sledging party and Discovery in the pack ice; and a facsimile of a signed menu from the same expedition.
On 5 January 1902, when the card was signed, Discovery was four days away from making her landfall on the Antarctic continent at Cape Adare, inaugurating the Antarctic careers of Scott and Shackleton. (4)
Humorous pictorial Christmas card ('There was an old woman of Wilts ...') signed by Robert Falcon SCOTT, Ernest Henry SHACKLETON, Edward Wilson, Charles Royds, Albert Armitage, Thomas Hodgson, Louis Bernacchi, Hartley Ferrar, Michael Barne, Reginald Koettlitz and Reginald Skelton, 5 January 1902, annotated 'Xmas dinner in Antarctic Pack', on a bifolium, 90 x 125mm (some spotting to outer pages); with two photographs from the expedition, showing a sledging party and Discovery in the pack ice; and a facsimile of a signed menu from the same expedition.
On 5 January 1902, when the card was signed, Discovery was four days away from making her landfall on the Antarctic continent at Cape Adare, inaugurating the Antarctic careers of Scott and Shackleton. (4)
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