Sir Ernest Shackleton's miniature awards: Royal Victorian Order badge, silver and enamel, Polar Medal, EV11R with two clasps 'ANTARCTIC 1902-04' and 'ANTARCTIC 1907-09', and Legion d'Honneur [France] badge, gold and enamel, with rosette on ribbon, the Polar Medal and Legion d'honneur mounted as worn (3)

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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922)
Sir Ernest Shackleton's miniature awards: Royal Victorian Order badge, silver and enamel, Polar Medal, EV11R with two clasps 'ANTARCTIC 1902-04' and 'ANTARCTIC 1907-09', and Legion d'Honneur [France] badge, gold and enamel, with rosette on ribbon, the Polar Medal and Legion d'honneur mounted as worn (3)

Provenance

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922) and by descent to the present owner.

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The illustration shows the incorrect miniature award on the right. The miniatures are however correctly described in the catalogue entry.

Lot Essay

Shackleton's miniatures presumably worn from 1909 after the awards of the CVO (1909), second clasp (1909) to his Polar Medal (1904), and Legion d'honneur [France], 1909, for the Nimrod expedition of 1907-1909. For Shackleton's miniature Polar Medal (one clasp 1902-04), presumably worn 1904-1907, see Christie's, 23 Sept. 2004, lot 180.

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