Ivanov Collection of Russia; Matuzas Collection Of Lithuania; U.S. & Worldwide
September 7-8, 2011 and September 13-15, 2011

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Lot #7123
ANTARCTICA
1918 picture post card addressed to Maria Feodorovna (1847-1928), born Princess Dagmar of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and later Princess Dagmar of Denmark, Empress consort of Russia as spouse of Emperor Alexander III. She was the second daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Cassel. Among her children was the last Russian monarch, Emperor Nicholas II, whom she outlived by ten years. The card was sent by Prince Valdemar of Denmark (the youngest son of Christian IX of Denmark and brother of Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia), with notation in Danish "souvenir from the Hvidore, via Fram" and sent to the Empress in St.Petersburg, franked with Norwegian 5o green, tied by Polhavet pmk, arriving in 1926 (!) in Leningrad, returned, with markings in red crayon "Inconnu" (unknown). Interesting and historical item
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Price Realized
$2,300.00

Lot #7124
ANTARCTICA
1918 Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (1872-1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the first Antarctic expedition to reach the South Pole between 1910 and 1912. He was the first person to reach both the North and South Poles. He is also known as the first to traverse the Northwest Passage. Amundsen, along with Douglas Mawson, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. While initially, he used Fridtjof Nansen's Fram under the South Pole expedition, in 1916 he contracted his own polar "Matilda". It was used for sailing through the Northeast Passage. Amundsen led an expedition from 1918 to 1920. The aim of the expedition was to explore the unknown areas of the Arctic Ocean. The plan was that they were going to sail along the coast of Siberia and go into the ice farther to the north and east than Nansen did. In contrast to Amundsen's earlier expeditions, this expedition had a clear academic profile, with geophysicis
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Price Realized
$450.00

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