Commemorative Chocolate Card- Sledging Party

Card, souvenir card bearing a coloured illustration of a sledging party man-hauling their equipment, labelled ‘A Sledging Party –Mount Erebus in the Distance’, underneath which is the caption ‘Fry’s Coca and Chocolate Makers to H.M. the King’. The reverse of the card features a description of the make-up of the party into units and the equipment and manning of each sledge, ‘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.