Of Arctic and Amundsen interest. A 1924 Drift Voyage postcar...

Hammer

£60

Of Arctic and Amundsen interest. A 1924 Drift Voyage postcard, printed by Eneret Mittet & Co,with an image of a man on skis with a husky beside an ice locked vessel, the reverse four language text 'This card will be carried by the 'Fram' across the Polar Sea and afterwards conveyed by post to the addressee', also with facsimile Amundsen signature, postal stamps and Polhavet date stamps dated 1924, and addressed to Julius E Anderson, mounted on black card with a photocopy of the reverse of similar card. *Notes- These card were produced to help raise funds for Amundsen's expeditions. the Fram was used by Amundsen on his 1910-1912 South Pole Expedition on which he became the first to reach the pole beating Scott and his team. The Fram was left to decline in storage from 1912 until 1921. From 1918 Amundsen used his second ship 'Maud' for the North Pole & Northwest Passage Expeditions.