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)
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)
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