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• Auction House:
  Cordy's
• Sale Name:
  February 2017 Art & Antique Auction
• Sale Date:
  28 Feb 2017 ~ 10am (NZ time) - Session 1: Lots 1 - 326
  28 Feb 2017 ~ 5pm (NZ time) - Session 2: Lots 340 - 707
• Lot #:
  84
• Lot Description:
  A rare presentation signed portrait photograph of the explorer Roald Amundsen by Herman John Schmidt
  Signed in ink and dated 30th April 1912, exactly three months after departing Antarctica and one month after informing the world of the successful first expedition to reach the geographic South Pole. Amundsen had travelled to Hobart from the Great Ice Barrier arriving on 7th March and then travelled subsequently via New Zealand to Buenos Aires to rejoin his ship The Fram. This uncommon studio portrait was taken by Schmidt owner of the Hemus Photographic Studio, Auckland. 195 x 145 image, entitled in matted window ‘Capt. Roald Amundsen, Discoverer of the South Pole, December 1911’, oak framed.
• Estimate:
  NZ$1,000 - 1,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Photography

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