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Commemorative Chocolate Card - Commander Evans DUNIH 2011.2.4

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Commemorative Chocolate Card - Commander Evans

Card, souvenir card bearing a coloured illustration of Commander Evans in uniform labelled, ‘Commander Evans R.N. Second in Command’, underneath which is the caption ‘Fry’s Coca and Chocolate Makers to H.M. the King’. The reverse of the card features Evans’s biographical details, ‘Captain Scott and the South Pole’ (the name of the series of cards) and the caption ‘Fry’s Pure Coca 300 Grands Prix Gold Medals’ all within a decorative boarder of coiled rope. Part of a complete set of 25 cards commemorating the Terra Nova Expedition 1910-12 issued by Fry’s chocolate (one of the expedition’s sponsors) in 1913.

Number: DUNIH 2011.2.4
Name: Commemorative Chocolate Card - Commander Evans
Date: 1913
Maker: Fry's Chocolate
Location: In Store