
Lot 177
SHACKLETON (ERNEST HENRY) "Complimentary Dinner Given to Lieutenant Shackleton and the Scientists and Officers of the Antarctic Expedition of 1907", MENU SIGNED BY SHACKLETON, BERNARD DAY, WILLIAM ROBERTS, 30 December 1907 (2)
1 February 2017, 13:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £3,750 inc. premium
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SHACKLETON (ERNEST HENRY)
"Complimentary Dinner Given to Lieutenant Shackleton and the Scientists and Officers of the Antarctic Expedition of 1907", MENU SIGNED BY SHACKLETON, BERNARD DAY, WILLIAM ROBERTS, and 7 others, 4pp., upper cover printed in gilt with the "Antarctic Expedition S.Y. Nimrod 1907" emblem in blue, 12mo (113 x 88mm.), Christchurch, Freeman's Rooms, [19 December 1907]--Menu held for the "British Antarctic Expedition" dinner held at the Canterbury Club, Christchurch, SIGNED BY SHACKLETON, WILD, EDGEWORTH DAVID, and approximately 30 others, 4pp., oval photographic illustration of polar scenes on upper and lower cover, signatures on inside and lower pages, punch holes at fore-edge, 8vo (155 x 105mm.), 30 December 1907 (2)
Footnotes
Two menus given for members of the Nimrod expedition by the Canterbury establishment, each signed by Shackleton and other crew. At the first Shackleton was presented with a copper salver made from bolts taken from Nelson's ship Victory, and Bishop Julius gave his blessing at an event attended by some eighty local dignataries. The second was a private dinner given by Joseph Kinsey, previously Scott's New Zealand agent, two nights before they sailed.
Provenance: Henry J.L. Dunlop (1876-1931), Chief Engineer on the Nimrod; by descent to the present owner.