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Auction: 1020 - Summer Collectors Series - Stamps
Lot: 1848

Antarctica 1907-10 British Antarctic Expedition by Ernest H. Shackleton 1908 (3 Feb.) pen and ink illustrated "New Zealand Post Card", apparently drawn by W.S. Percy, to Tewkesbury, bearing King Edward VII Land 1d. rose-carmine neatly cancelled with c.d.s., the message headed "The Icy Regions". A rare and highly attractive postcard sent from the first mailing at Cape Royds. Photo Estimate £ 400-500 provenance: "Discovery", 1990

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