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Richard Evelyn Byrd (1888-1957)
Southard & Co. (shippers).An empty brown glass port bottle, labelled twice: 'Douro Port Vintage 1927 Sothard & Co Oporto' and on a label printed in brown and black 'The Byrd Expedition/Antarctica, 1928-29-30./Vintage Port 1927 Grand Hotel/Dunedin.. N.Z./R.E.Byrd [facsimile signature]/Rear-Admiral R.E. Byrd.', 30.5cm. high, with remains of cork and seal around neck, and fragments of note-paper attached with adhesive tape to the bottle in two places (some damage to labels, note-paper browned and with sections torn away). A reminder of Byrd's triumphant return to civilization after having achieved the first flight over the Pole on 28 November 1929. A number of the members of the expedition signed the note-paper attached to the bottle, unfortunately these names are all but illegible now. The City of New York and the Eleanor Bolling had arrived back in Dunedin on 10 March 1930.
Southard & Co. (shippers).An empty brown glass port bottle, labelled twice: 'Douro Port Vintage 1927 Sothard & Co Oporto' and on a label printed in brown and black 'The Byrd Expedition/Antarctica, 1928-29-30./Vintage Port 1927 Grand Hotel/Dunedin.. N.Z./R.E.Byrd [facsimile signature]/Rear-Admiral R.E. Byrd.', 30.5cm. high, with remains of cork and seal around neck, and fragments of note-paper attached with adhesive tape to the bottle in two places (some damage to labels, note-paper browned and with sections torn away). A reminder of Byrd's triumphant return to civilization after having achieved the first flight over the Pole on 28 November 1929. A number of the members of the expedition signed the note-paper attached to the bottle, unfortunately these names are all but illegible now. The City of New York and the Eleanor Bolling had arrived back in Dunedin on 10 March 1930.
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