Commemorative Chocolate Card-Returining Sledge Party
Card, souvenir card bearing a coloured illustration of a party of seven pulling a sledge with a mast across the ice labelled, ‘Sledging Party Returning After Ten Weeks Absence’, underneath which is the caption ‘Fry’s Coca and Chocolate Makers to H.M. the King’. The reverse of the card features a letter from Commander Evans congratulating Fry's on publishing the "Series of Antarctic pictures.....most instructive and interesting...details wonderfully correct...", ‘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 2011.2.8 |
Name: | Commemorative Chocolate Card-Returining Sledge Party |
Date: | 1913 |
Maker: | Fry's Chocolate |
Location: | In Store |