Autograph: Ernest Shackleton, on Piece of the Endurance, 1914
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Ernest Shackleton
Production date
1914
Description
One rectangular untreated piece of wood with 'E H. Shackleton' signed along its length. It arrived in a rectangular white envelope with a handwritten note, "Piece of 'The Endurance' signed by Sir Ernest Shackleton 1914 before leaving for the Antarctic Continent". This in turn arrived in a rectangular blue envelope with a handwritten note "from, Millicent Frances Smith, widow of Wesley Smith, has shared the possession of this for 50 years, a gift to Lord Shackleton, MP, 6 St James Square S.W.I".
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Dimensions L x W: 2 - Original Envelope: 145 x 152mm
Dimensions L x W: 3 - Blue Envelope: 106 x 158mm
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