Live Auction 6911Travel, Science and Natural History
The first and second Antarctic Relief Expeditions, 1902-1904
Lot 93

The first and second Antarctic Relief Expeditions, 1902-1904

Captain William Colbeck's Scrap Album including approximately 39 photographs, the majority vintage prints, relating to the expedition, along with numerous loosely inserted letters relating to the collection

Closed9 October 2012

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The first and second Antarctic Relief Expeditions, 1902-1904
Captain William Colbeck's Scrap Album including approximately 39 photographs, the majority vintage prints, relating to the expedition, along with numerous loosely inserted letters relating to the collection
the majority of prints annotated by Colbeck on the reverse, one portrait of Colbeck on deck signed by the sitter
the album 12 x 10in. (30.4 x 25.4cm.)

Anon. sale, Taviner's Auction Rooms, Bristol, 15 Oct. 1981, lot 92.

Specialist note

Colbeck was captain of the Morning during Scott's Discovery expedition of 1902-04, taking her on both relief expeditions. The Morning found the Discovery held fast in the ice in February 1903. After re-supplying her she returned to New Zealand before returnning south again with Terra Nova in January 1904, helping to release Scott's frozen in ship in February 1904.