SHACKLETON'S IMPERIAL TRANS-ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1914-1917 (Lots 149-151)
SIR ERNEST HENRY SHACKLETON (1874-1922)
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SIR ERNEST HENRY SHACKLETON (1874-1922)
An irregularly-shaped rock sample, framed with an 8vo sheet of Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition notepaper inscribed by Shackleton "A Piece of Mt Erebus with Sir Ernest Shackleton's Compliments. H. Claude Fox Esq.". the mount with a later calligraphic inscription "A piece of Mount Erebus Presented to The Napier Club by H. Claude Fox".
A fine memento probably collected during Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-1909 and sent to Fox during the planning stage for the second expedition in early 1914. Napier, a seaport on the east coast of North Island, New Zealand, about 200 miles north east of Wellington, was at the time the capital of the provincial district of Hawke's Bay. New Zealand was a convenient final port of call for a number of the great Antarctic expeditions and they were received with great enthusiasm and kindness, both privately and officially.
An irregularly-shaped rock sample, framed with an 8vo sheet of Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition notepaper inscribed by Shackleton "A Piece of Mt Erebus with Sir Ernest Shackleton's Compliments. H. Claude Fox Esq.". the mount with a later calligraphic inscription "A piece of Mount Erebus Presented to The Napier Club by H. Claude Fox".
A fine memento probably collected during Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-1909 and sent to Fox during the planning stage for the second expedition in early 1914. Napier, a seaport on the east coast of North Island, New Zealand, about 200 miles north east of Wellington, was at the time the capital of the provincial district of Hawke's Bay. New Zealand was a convenient final port of call for a number of the great Antarctic expeditions and they were received with great enthusiasm and kindness, both privately and officially.