Live Auction 6911Travel, Science and Natural History
BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1910-1913
Lot 116

BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1910-1913

A side-plate from the wardroom of the 'Terra Nova'

Closed9 October 2012

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GBP 1,625

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BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1910-1913
A side-plate from the wardroom of the 'Terra Nova'
the BAE logo printed in blue, with dark blue and gilt painted border, with maker's mark 'D[U]NN BENNETTS PATENT UNCHIPPABLE SURFACE. BURSLEM, ENGLAND.' and impressed stamp 'PATENT I209' on base
6½in. (16.5cm.) diameter

Joseph Leese (1884-1948), and thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

Leese was a Royal Navy rating aboard HMS Mutine, when the Terra Nova tied up alongside her in Simonstown, South Africa, at the end of the first leg of her journey south. Leese was chosen as a replacement for one of two men Edward Wilson put ashore sick and thereafter served aboard as Able Seaman.