Crafted by James Dixon & Sons of Sheffield around 1900, the three-piece service bears the Shackleton crest and motto “Fortitudine Vincimus” - “Through endurance, we conquer,” the phrase that inspired the name of his ship Endurance.
A silver tea set linked to Kildare-born Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton is heading to auction and could fetch £3000 .
He was born in Kilkea, near Athy.
Crafted by James Dixon & Sons of Sheffield around 1900, the three-piece service bears the Shackleton crest and motto “Fortitudine Vincimus” - “Through endurance, we conquer,” the phrase that inspired the name of his ship Endurance.
Presented to Shackleton in New York in 1910 after his Nimrod expedition triumph, the set later passed through his family before spending two decades on loan to Cambridge’s Scott Polar Research Institute.
Roseberys’ Georgina Agnew described it as “a rare and evocative piece of Shackletoniana with direct links to his family and the polar expeditions for which he is renowned.”
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