115. BRITISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1901-1904
an officers’ mess creamware soup bowl, expedition transfer device and blue edge, the reverse with maker’s mark for ‘Doulton Burslem’ -- 10½in. (26.5cm.) diameter
The 1901 Antarctic expedition is not only interesting for being the one in which the titans of British Antarctic exploration, Scott and Shackelton, both served but because, unlike the later expeditions in which the cutlery and tableware did not leave the ship and were substituted for more robust enamelled tin examples, the 1901 expedition used the wardroom tableware in the base camp with the inevitable result that much of it was lost or damaged. Things had become so serious that Lt. Royds recorded in his diary for 8th September 1901: The breakages continue in vast quantities in our pantry, and only about 8 tea cups are left. We shall not I know have a single piece of china for a relic, if this state of things go on. Thus it is reasonable to assume that the lot offered here would have been used by most if not all of the officers on the expedition.
£600-800
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LT. CHARLES ROYDS / BRITISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1901-1904
a set of ten gilt brass expedition uniform buttons, each with a wreathed fouled anchor inscribed under DISCOVERY, the reverse impressed with maker’s marks for ‘Firmin & Sons Ltd, London’
(10) Provenance: Sotheby’s, Sussex, 26th July 1996, lot 216. £500-700
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117. BRITISH ARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1875-76
a tea saucer from the officers’ mess of H.M.S. Discovery, black ropework board and expedition device to rim, the reverse with anchor-form maker’s marks for Copeland repeated in three places, the centre inscribed DISCOVERY -- 7in. (18cm.) diameter
Of the three colours this expedition’s mess tableware was produced in, black is by far less commonly seen than the brown and blue alternatives.
£300-500
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