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BBC News
10-07-2025
- BBC News
Shackleton expedition pocket watch sells at Cotswold auction
A silver pocket watch, which travelled on explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic voyage more than a century ago, has sold for £2,000 more than its guide price at George V Antarctic Expedition open face pocket watch was taken on the SY Aurora during Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic Expedition between 1914 and May 1915, a blizzard caused the ship to break from its anchorage, and it spent 312 days adrift due to ice. It was freed by melting ice in March watch went under the hammer at Kinghams Auctioneers in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, on Thursday and was sold to a private buyer for £2,600.
BBC News
04-07-2025
- BBC News
Watch with 'adventurous past' to be auctioned in Gloucestershire
A pocket watch which has been described as having an "adventurous past" by an auction house is set to go under the engraving on its dustcover details how the watch was taken on the SY Aurora by Sir Ernest Shackleton during his Trans-Antarctic Expedition between 1914 and open face silver pocket watch was inherited 40 years ago by the current watch is expected to fetch between £400 and £600 at Kinghams Auctioneers in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, on 10 July. The engraving on the back cover reads: "This watch went to Antarctica in 1914. and was carried away on the S.Y. Aurora on her long drift returning when she relieved (sic) the party in 1917."The S.Y. Aurora transported and supplied the Ross Sea Party, a component of Sir Ernest's expedition, led by Joseph Stenhouse. In May 1915, a blizzard caused the ship to break from its anchorage and, with ice hindering its ability to manoeuvre, it spent 312 days was freed by melting ice in March said competitive bidding is expected on the watch because there is "a strong interest in anything expedition and particularly Antarctic-related amongst collectors".
