Lot 125
125
A "British Artartic Expedition" electro-plated paper-knife (possibly a decorative meat-skewer) with ringed top, the blade incised with a circular emblem having a representation of the polar region beneath a standing penguin, within the notation British Antartic Expedition Terra Nova RYS

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A "British Artartic Expedition" electro-plated paper-knife (possibly a decorative meat-skewer) with ringed top, the blade incised with a circular emblem having a representation of the polar region beneath a standing penguin, within the notation British Antartic Expedition Terra Nova RYS

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In their letter dated 23rd August 1990 the National Maritime Museum described this as a paper knife that would have been taken onboard Terra Nova in which Captain Robert Falcon Scott led his 1910 South Polar expedition. The National Maritime Museum has on loan a spoon bearing an identical engraved emblem

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