Six lots relating to Shackleton’s British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-09 offered in a January 3 sale held by Golding Young & Mawer (20% buyer’s premium) raised £15,150 in all.
As expected, it was a menu produced for a ‘Midwinter Celebration’ (left) in June 1908 that topped the bidding at £6400. Printed on the expedition’s Albion press, still in its pink card wrappers and with a woodcut vignette at its head, it promises what seems a somewhat fanciful bill of fare and ends with a rather tipsy final line.