Lot #274 - Historical items belonging to Captain Ernest E.M. Joyce
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Auction House:Cordy's
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Sale Name:November 2017 Art & Antique Auction
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Sale Date:14 Nov 2017 ~ 9.30am (NZ time) - Session 1 - Lots 1 - 410
14 Nov 2017 ~ 5pm (NZ time) Session 2 - Lots 420 - 799 -
Lot #:274
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Lot Description:Historical items belonging to Captain Ernest E.M. Joyce
together with an autograph album containing Shackleton’s and other signatures from the 1907-09 British Antarctic Expedition. Includes 1. A silver cigarette case presentation engraved ‘Presented to Capt. Mills Joyce By The Executive of the G.W.V.A of Newfoundland in Appreciation of Services on behalf of The Relief Fund. August 1926”. 2. A 9ct gold fob engraved ‘E.E.Joyce 17-5-13’, from ‘United Commercial Travellers Assn. of Australasia’. 3. A Curlett family member autograph album containing eight signatures of members of the 1907-09 British Antarctic Expedition (Nimrod Expedition) including Ernest Joyce, Ernest Shackleton, George Marston, Ray Priestley, John Davis, Frank Wild, Alistair Forbes Mackay and Jameson Boyd Adams, on the opposing page is a poem written in ink by Ernest Shackleton entitles ‘Erebus’, ‘Keeper of the Southern Gapway, rugged and grime & grand, warden of these...’ initialled E.H.S. Note: Erebus was first climbed on Shackleton’s 1907-09 expedition, two of those who r -
Estimate:NZ$3,000 - 4,500
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Realised Price:
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Category:Memorabilia
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