ROALD ENGELBREGT GRAVNING AMUNDSEN (1872-1928)
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ROALD ENGELBREGT GRAVNING AMUNDSEN (1872-1928)

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ROALD ENGELBREGT GRAVNING AMUNDSEN (1872-1928)

Amundsen's yellow-green tinted sunglasses, in black spectacle case stamped ROALD AMUNDSEN in gilt
Provenance
Roald Amundsen and thence by descent to the present owner.
Exhibited
Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Arktis-Antarktis, 1997-98, no 172 ('Sonnerbrille von Roald Amundsen').
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

Lot Essay

'During the whole stay on the Barrier I myself wore a pair of ordinary spectacles with yellow glasses of quite a light tint. These are prepared by a chemical process in such a way that they nullify the harmful colours in the sun's rays. How excellent these glasses are appears clearly enough from the fact that I never had the slightest touch of snow-blindness on the southern journey, although the spectacles were perfectly open and allowed the light to enter freely everywhere.' (R.E.G. Amundsen, The South Pole, London, 1912, p.87)

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