Scott photographs fail to sell
NZPA-Reuter London A collection of historic photographs of .the tragic lasi Antarctic expedition by Captain Robert Falcon Scott . failed to sell at a London ■ auction. , . The 72 contact photographs, including the famous pictjUr6 of mernbers doomed expedition standing at the South. Pole under the Norwegian flag of Amundexpedition which jhad beaten'"them to' their" goal,
were unsold after a top bid , of only §644. I Before the sale, Christies J South Kensington, had estit mated they would fetch bej tween $2760 and $4140. The photographs were - mostly from { negatives made s by Herbert’Ponting who met e Scott in 1909, the year ber fore the expedition left for e the Antarctic on board the - Terra Nova. He was included Jon the . expedition .at .the I,{request ofScdtf ''
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