Lot 3056

Description

Shackleton's Last Antarctic Expedition, Southward in the "Quest", c1922, a cardboard body Kinimette view box with twelve slides in original black paper covered cardboard box (approx 17x7.3x7cm) with top label showing an explorer at the Pole and initialled 'JWS' (?) and 'Mar', and on one end is the label of Kinemette with instructions for viewing. Cardboard box well worn and loose at one corner, the rest fine.

With research that includes a photocopy of the expedition team and their signatures. The original set of 12 scenes from the expedition feature whale-flensing and zoological and geological specimens. It was promoted that further sets of 12 slides would be issued at the time but it is unknown if this eventuated.