Live Auction 14139Out of the Ordinary
SIR ERNEST HENRY SHACKLETON CVO, OBE, FRGS (1874-1922)A GLASS THERMOMETER
Lot 515 Property from the Collection of David Gainsborough Roberts

SIR ERNEST HENRY SHACKLETON CVO, OBE, FRGS (1874-1922)A GLASS THERMOMETER

EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Closed14 September 2016

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SIR ERNEST HENRY SHACKLETON CVO, OBE, FRGS (1874-1922)
A GLASS THERMOMETER
EARLY 20TH CENTURY
With chrome fittings and graded from 30 to 170 degrees Fahrenheit, in original wooden case, contains mercury
9 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) long

Sir Ernest Shackleton.
Thence by descent.
Christie's, London, 29 April 1999, lot 159.

Specialist note

Shackleton led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He had been third officer on Scott's Discovery Expedition, then between 1907-1909 on the Nimrod Expedition, he established a new record for venturing the farthest South. He led the ill-fated Imperial Trans-Atlantic (Endurance) Expedition of 1914-1917 when the ship was crushed by ice, eventually sinking in 1915. His final expedition (The Shackleton-Rowett Expedition), sadly ended in tragedy when Shackleton died of a heart attack in South Georgia in 1922.