Shell Motor Spirit 'With Captain Scott RN in the Antarctic/En route to the South Pole' advertising card showing explorers riding on 'snow tractor' towing sleds of supplies, unused, minor blemishes.
1908 'THE DASH FOR THE SOUTH POLE' multi-view featuring Lieut Shackleton, the 'Nimrod' x2, a motorised truck, a pony & a dog, light soiling, used at 'TEMPLETON' in 1908.
c.1908 British 'DR FORBES McKAY' in his woolies & smoking a pipe, unused. [Dr Alistair Forbes McKay was doctor with Ernest Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition. With Edgeworth David and Douglas Mawson he was in the trio that first reached the South Magnetic Pole. The flag-raising there is pictured on the AAT 5d stamps: McKay is on the left]
c.1910 Australian Keen's Mustard advertising card of an Antarctic explorer & inscribed 'Farthest South', the Keen's packet & flag being superimposed in colour, corner abrasion, unused.
c.1910 British chromolitho advertising card for Cerebos Salt with four vignettes including 'ANTARCTIC OCEAN' with a ship stuck in ice and a husky team with sled in the foreground, light soiling on the back, unused. [We have seen other examples but this is the first that has flowers printed to obstruct the advertisement]
c.1913 'In Memory of the Antarctic Heroes/The Late Captain Scott and his gallant comrades who perished March 1912 at the South Pole' real photo card showing the British Antarctic Expedition vessel 'Terra Nova' ice-bound with inset vignette portrait of Captain Robert Falcon Scott.
1961 Abbott Pharmaceutical promotional card with photo of Wilkes Base & AAT 8d Map tied by 'WILKES' cds, printed message to doctors encouraging the use of Pentothal for anaesthesia, minor creasing. [In America, Pentothal, or sodium thiopental, became the drug of choice for legal executions. It is also used for medically induced comas and euthanasia]
