Number of results: 14
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| Sale number: 31 Arctic Expeditions: A selection of mainly covers and cards in a small box, incl. p.p.c's (3, one used in 1903) of the 1897 Andree North Pole Expedition by balloon, 1924 Trans Polar Flight Expedition cards (3), Ice Islands, Expedition cachets, also 1833 copy of the Saturday Magazine with ''some account of the Arctic regions'' with engraving, etc. (198 items). Price Realised £220 |
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| Sale number: 31 Arctic Expeditions: Canada: 1928 to 1989, a selection of covers and cards, incl. flown covers, Expeditions, etc. (86 items) Price Realised UNSOLD |
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| Sale number: 31 Arctic Expeditions: Greenland: 1938 to 1979, a selection of covers and cards, incl. Expeditions, flown covers, cachets, many are signed, etc. (180 items). Price Realised UNSOLD |
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| Sale number: 31 Arctic Expeditions: Italy: 1926 (April) Airship ''Norge'' two imperforate labels, also 1926-28 Air 1L.80 overprinted ''Esplorazione Polare/NOBILE/Dirigibile Italia'' but on the gummed side and two unused p.p.c's of the Airship and the crew. Price Realised UNSOLD |
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| Sale number: 31 Arctic Expeditions: Norway: 1946 to 1980, a selection of covers and cards, incl. Expeditions, Polar Flights, good range of cachets, etc. (100 items). Price Realised £130 |
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| Sale number: 31 Arctic Expeditions: Russia: A selection of covers and cards, incl. Ice Islands, flown covers, Icebreakers, postal stationery, etc. (160 items). Price Realised UNSOLD |
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| Sale number: 31 Arctic Expeditions: Russia: 1931 Graf Zeppelin registered card to Germany, posted on the ''Malygin'' July 18, with North Pole 30k. and 1r. imperforate with red flight cachet and violet three line cachet, also almost identical card but Leningrad, 1932 second Polar flight envelope and card bearing 50k. and 1r. with usual cachets, also a few modern commemorative envelopes or cards. (11 items) Price Realised UNSOLD |
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| Sale number: 31 Arctic Expeditions: United States of America: 1957-83 selection of covers and cards, incl. Drift Station, Research Laboratories, Expeditions, good range of cachets, etc. (100 items). Price Realised UNSOLD |
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| Sale number: 31 Arctic Expeditions: United States of America: 1934 to 1979, a selection of covers and cards, incl. Expeditions, airmails, Research Laboratories, etc. (100 items). Price Realised UNSOLD |
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| Sale number: 31 Arctic Expeditions: United States of America: 1946 to 1983, a selection of covers and cards, incl. Airmails, Research Laboratories, range of cachets, etc. (100 items). Price Realised UNSOLD |
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| Sale number: 89 Arctic Expeditions: 1897 (Dec. 20) U.S. War Department envelope sent from Washington franked 5c., addressed to journalist and author Arthur Brice in London, enclosing interesting two page typewritten letter composed and signed by American Polar explorer, and now Chief Signal Officer of the Army, Adolphus W. Greely, the envelope being also signed. The letter refers to the forthcoming second edition of Greely's ''Handbook of Arctic Discoveries'' whilst apologizing that the letter is handwritten as ''the loss of the middle finger of my right hand makes it quite impossible to write much with my own hand''. Greely also encloses a typed extract from his new edition recounting the expeditions and surveys of the Franz Josef archipelago by British explorer Frederick George Jackson whose ''The Great Frozen Land'' (1895) had been edited by Brice. Leader of the ill-fated 1881-84 Lady Franklin Bay Expedition from which only six men survived, Greely was subsequently obliged to later deny accusations of cannibalism when food supplies had run pitifully low. Photo. Price Realised £300 |
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| Sale number: 89 Arctic Expeditions: 1897 Andrée Balloon Expedition to the North Pole, 1898 chromo-litho picture postcard from Bavaria, written in German but addressed in French to ''M. Andrée/en retour du pole nord/Hammerfest/ou à pole nord'' (Mr. Andrée, returning from the North Pole) at Hammerfest or at the North Pole"", with Hammerfest Mar. 16 1898 arrival c.d.s. and redirected to the newspaper Aftonbladet in Stockholm. A most unusual item relating to this ill-fated expedition. In 1897 Salomon A. Andrée, the first Swedish balloonist, attempted a voyage by hydrogen balloon from Svalbard to either Canada or Russia, the intention being to cross directly over the North Pole. Unfortunately the balloon crashed onto pack ice after only two days and Andrée, togeter with fellow expedition members, Nils Strindberg and Karl Fraenkel, faced a long trek south to safety. They reached the remote island of Kvitøya where they perished, their last camp remaining undiscovered until 1930. Photo. Price Realised £220 |
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| Sale number: 122 Arctic Expeditions: Franklin's lost expedition, 1845 (Mar. 3) O.H.M.S. endorsed stampless entire letter of application, sent from Noblehouse in the Scottish Borders by Assistant Surgeon Daniel Ritchie to the Secretary of the Admiralty in London. Having read of its preparation ''in one of the public journals'', Ritchie proposes himself as a candidate for the ''expedition ... for the Polar Regions'' and may later have considered himself fortunate that his services were not required. Price Realised £180 |
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| Sale number: 122 Arctic: Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition 1894-97: 1896 envelope showing rare expedition straight line ""FRANZ JOSEF LAND"" in violet, with enclosed letter to Henry Cooke, H.B.M. Vice-Consul in Archangel, written and signed by expedition leader Frederick George Jackson at ""Elmwood/Cape Flora/Franz Josef Land"", dated ""July 29 1896"" and posted from London registered to Russia franked by G.B. 2d. and 21/2d., with receiving annotation ""rec'd at Archangel Sept. 6/18 1896"". Jackson writes, ""I have asked Mr. Harmsworth to send you an abstract of my letter to him . . . we are meeting with many unexpected difficulties and disappointments here but shall, I trust, lick them all in the end of the thing. You may be sure we shall do our best to uphold the honour of old England in the far north."" Jackson later publically expressed his gratitude to Cooke for his assistance in the purchase of furs and a pre-tested log-hut for the expedition. On 17 June there had occurred the surprise arrival of Fridtjoft Nansen and a sole companion from the ""Fram"", Hjalmar Johansen, who had attempted a failed dash to the Pole and only by good fortune stumbled upon Jacksons' field headquarters, ""Elmwood"" on Northbrook Island. Nansen and Johansen subsequently returned to Norway on Jackson's ship ""Windward"" whilst Jackson remained in the Arctic for a further year. On July 26 the ""Windward"" had arrived, departing on Aug. 7 with Nansen, Johansen and covers including this item aboard, reaching Vardø in northern Norway on Aug. 13 from where telegrams were sent informing the world of Nansen's safe return, before the ""Windward"" carried on to London, arriving on Sept. 3. Photo. Price Realised £1300 |
