THE PROPERTY OF SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON'S NIECES
SIR ERNEST HENRY SHACKLETON (1874-1922)
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SIR ERNEST HENRY SHACKLETON (1874-1922)
A plywood and pitch-pine packing-case with metal edging, hinges, lock and carrying handles, [circa 1907], 46.5 x 38 x 29.8cm., stencilled 'Cocoa' front and back, with 'British Antarctic Expedition SY "Nimrod" Lyttleton New Zealand 1907-1909' in manuscript lettering on lid, manuscript inscription in ink on inside of lid 'C[lara] L[ilian] Shackleton Sydenham S.E. Oct. 1909'. Provenance: British Antarctic Expedition 1907-90; Clara Shackleton; by descent to the present owners. [With:] A small piece of pine batten, 7 x 3.9 x 2cm., with manuscript lettering in ink 'Endurance 1914'. Provenance: Helen Shackleton; by descent.
Two fine ephemeral mementos of Shackleton's Antarctic expeditions. George Marston is known to have sent Helen Shackleton a piece of the Nimrod after the return of Shackleton's first expedition, and she may have approached him, rather than her brother, to secure the present piece of the Endurance. Subsequent events (the sinking of the ship on 21 November 1915) have made fragments from Endurance considerably rarer than those from the Nimrod. (2)
A plywood and pitch-pine packing-case with metal edging, hinges, lock and carrying handles, [circa 1907], 46.5 x 38 x 29.8cm., stencilled 'Cocoa' front and back, with 'British Antarctic Expedition SY "Nimrod" Lyttleton New Zealand 1907-1909' in manuscript lettering on lid, manuscript inscription in ink on inside of lid 'C[lara] L[ilian] Shackleton Sydenham S.E. Oct. 1909'. Provenance: British Antarctic Expedition 1907-90; Clara Shackleton; by descent to the present owners. [With:] A small piece of pine batten, 7 x 3.9 x 2cm., with manuscript lettering in ink 'Endurance 1914'. Provenance: Helen Shackleton; by descent.
Two fine ephemeral mementos of Shackleton's Antarctic expeditions. George Marston is known to have sent Helen Shackleton a piece of the Nimrod after the return of Shackleton's first expedition, and she may have approached him, rather than her brother, to secure the present piece of the Endurance. Subsequent events (the sinking of the ship on 21 November 1915) have made fragments from Endurance considerably rarer than those from the Nimrod. (2)