Worldwide Stamps and Covers Antarctica: Swedish Expedition 1901-04
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Antarctica: Swedish Expedition 1901-04: Handcarried envelope endorsed “To my Geographical Friends/Letter of introduction for Dr. Otto Nordenskjšld”, unusual. (Image1)
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Antarctica: Swedish Expedition 1901-04: 1901 (Dec. 30) eight page letter showing the expedition cachet in violet, handwritten to his sister by chemist Gšsta Bodman on the “Antarctic” headed “Syd Atlanten” and directing that incoming mail should be addressed c/o the “Swedish & Norwegian Consulate”, “Antarctic”, Port-Stanley, Falklands Islands”. Also two photographs of the rescue ship “Uruguay”, of unknown date. Anders Gustaf ‘Gšsta’ Bodman (1875-1960), expedition meteorologist and hydrographer, is commemorated by Bodman Point on the northwest coast of Seymour Island. Photo. (Image1)
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Antarctica: Swedish Expedition 1901-04: Complete printed sheet of 75 perforated and numbered labels intended to label rock and mineral samples discovered in the Falklands, South Georgia and Tierra del Fuego, folded horizontally, chiefly fine unused. (Image1)
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Antarctica: Swedish Expedition 1901-04: 1954 (ca.) Argentine Expeditions, fourteen original archival photographs showing Snow Hill Island (7) with the wooden cabin where Otto Nordenskjšld and five of his colleagues spent two winters (one unplanned) and Paulet Island (7) including the remains of the refuge where the crew of the “Antarctic” were stranded from Feb.-Nov. 1903, each stapled to archival page with signed cachet of the hydrographic ship A.R.A. “Chiriguano”. (Image1)