ANTARCTIC TRADE CARDS - Originally Series 2
Endurance.
074. ENDURANCE, Issued by Mills (Amalgamated Tobacco Corporation (South Africa) Ltd.) (1952). Card number 1 from a second set of 25 entitled "Famous British Ships". Size: Ca. 2.96" x 1.92".
Recto: View of Endurance among ice. At the top: Famous British Ships. At the bottom: Endurance.
Verso: Mills Plane FAMOUS BRITISH SHIPS Mills Corktips | Two Series of 25 | Series No. 2 | 1 | [In left panel:] Endurance, 1914 | In this little ship Sir Ernest Shackleton tried to reach the South Pole, being hemmed in by ice, she had to be abandoned. Shackleton and the crew reached home after great hardships. | [In right panel:] Endurance (1914) | In hierdie klein vaartuigle het Sir Ernest Shackleton probeer om die suidpool te bereik. Toe sy egter ingesluit was deur ys. moes die bemanning haar verlaat. Shackleton en sy mense het ulteindelik tuisgekom nadat hulle groot ontberings moes verduur. | DRAWN BY EDGAR PULLIN, S.M.A. | AMALGAMATED TOBACCO CORPORATION (SOUTH AFRICA) LTD. | JOHANNESBURG
Note: Image and information courtesy of Evan Jones, Wiltshire, England.