EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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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

Provenance

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

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Lot Essay

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.

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