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Purchasing Mawson’s Huts Memorabilia
All of the items below are available for purchase through the Mawsons’ Huts Foundation office. Each purchase you make contributes to conservation projects undertaken by the Foundation.
To place your order, please contact David Jensen at the Sydney office using this online form. We accept cash, cheque and credit card payments and donations. Shipping is included in the advertised price of each item.
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Mawson’s Huts Foundation Polar Philatelic Covers.
2009 Mawson’s Huts Conservation Expedition 2008-9 The Mawson’s Huts Foundation has issued a set of special commemorative covers and an Australia Post designed postmark to commemorate the 2008-9 Conservation Expedition. Pricing:
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POST CARDS OF ANTARCTIC EXPEDITIONS- A CATALOGUE 1898-1958 Compiled and edited by Margery Wharton (Revised and updated edition, 2007)Nine years after the publication of the first book to catalogue the Postcards of Antarctic Expeditions, a second edition has been published. This book is in larger format and has 90 more pages than the first edition. Every card listed in the original book is in this edition but there are over 250 new cards added to the listing. The entire book has been revised and updated.
Twenty-three major Antarctic expeditions are described in detail together with their commemorative postcards. The stories behind the production of the cards are told including biographies of the explorers and background information about the pictures. In addition there are sections on advertising and memoriam postcards. Separate indexes are given for the postcard titles, the ships and the surnames of those depicted on the cards. By means of a numbering system every card can be individually identified. There is also an introduction and a guide to using the catalogue. This unique book, which is far more than simply a listing, should be of interest to all those who are fascinated by Antarctic history, whether postcard collectors or not.
The author has visited the Antarctic Peninsula twice and in early 1998 visited the Ross Sea area, including the Historic Huts. She also took part in a circumnavigation of South Georgia in 2000. Personal research has involved visits to Australia, New Zealand and the Falkland Islands as well as to the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge and contacts with Antarctic postcard collectors and philatelists throughout the world. Sadly, Margery died in September 2008.
Specifications : Hard back casebound with full colour laminated cover, printed on long-life paper. ISBN 0953307409 362 pages (170mm x 250mm) with over 1000 illustrations in black and white, three maps. Eight-page colour section. More details and sample pages can be found on the website (See below). Cost: A$90.00 delivered to anywhere in Australia. (For delivery overseas contact PD Cranwell). For each copy sold through the Mawson’s Huts Foundation website $10.00 will be donated to the Foundation. This unique publication is available through the Mawson’s Huts Foundation website and can be purchased directly from Peter D Cranwell, Bookseller and agent for:
Postcards of Antarctic Expeditions Falklands Islands Catalogue Shackleton’s Photographer and Postmarks of the Australian Antarctic Territory – 1911-2004
PO Box 620 Rosanna, Victoria 3084 Australia. Phone: 03-9459 6720 Fax: 03-9459 8887 Email: pcranwell@optushome.com.au Website: http://www.petespolarplace.com |
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“Mawson’s Huts:- The Birthplace of Australia’s Antarctic Heritage”Price: AUD$95.00 (plus $5.00 freight within Australia, $25.00 International) Limited Edition Leather-bound Copy: AUD$400.00 (plus $25.00) Freight. Mawson’s Huts – The Birthplace of Australia’s Antarctic Heritage has been produced by the Mawson’s Huts Foundation in partnership with the Australian Antarctic Division to generate revenue for the ongoing conservation of the huts. Published by Allen and Unwin, this coffee table style book (305mm by 295mm) contains over 200 high quality images including the largest ever published collection of historic images by Mawson’s official photographer Frank Hurley – many being published for the first time. Plus over 100 contemporary colour images capturing the huts as they are today and the raw beauty of Cape Denison and the region’s wildlife. Please note, the postal address for the Foundation in the online brochure has been changed due to a move in location; it is now: GPO Box 3850, Sydney 2001. |
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Mawson’s Huts Foundation 2009 Calendars.2009 Mawson’s Huts Foundation Calendars. Download PDF order form. Purchase via PayPal using secure internet transaction (PayPal account required – follow instructions on the site). You will be redirected here upon completion of transaction. Postage & Packing is $6.50 extra.
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Rare Signed $100 Australian BanknotePrice: $7,000.00 This special collectable was produced for the launch of the Foundation in 1997 – only 50 were produced. The surrounds of the note has been personally signed by the then Governor General Sir William Deane (Patron), the Prime Minister of Australia John Howard, the Federal Treasurer Peter Costello, and the ‘conqueror of Everest’ and Antarctic explorer Sir Edmund Hillary. The $100 note itself is countersigned by the two signatories on the note – the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia Bernie Fraser, and the Secretary to the Treasury Anthony Cole. It is the only time than an Australian $100 banknote has been countersigned by the two signatories. Cost includes shipping within Australia. |
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$100 Mawson Banknotes Framed with Hut Timber
Price: $2500.00 Timber used in the construction of Mawson’s Huts on January 12 has been used to frame mint-condition Australian $100 bank notes. With a certificate of authenticity, these beautiful notes – known affectionately as “Grey Ghosts” were withdrawn from circulation by the Reserve Bank of Australia when plastic polymer $100 note was introduced into circulation in 1996. They feature the face of Sir Douglas Mawson clad in woollen balaclava. The timber used in the framing of the notes which were supplied to the Mawson’s Huts Foundation by the Reserve Bank of Australia, was recovered from the Cape Denison site and returned to Australia with special permission from the Australian Antarctic Division and the Department of Environment and Heritage. Only a limited number are available. Cost includes shipping within Australia. |
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Sir Douglas Mawson Limited Edition Print
Price: $2000.00 This is so special that a Governor General and five Prime Ministers have put their names to it. Only 50 were produced with the signatures Sir William Deane, Governor General of Australia and Patron of the Foundation in 1997 (when the Foundation was formed); the former Prime Ministers Sir John Gorton, Gough Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser and Bob Hawke and the current Prime Minister John Howard; Patricia Thomas and Jessica McEwin (Mawson’s daughters); Dr Alf Howard (scientist with Mawson on his 1929-31 voyage) and Dr Phillip Law (first Director of the Australian Antarctic Division). The print also contains a mint condition $100 Australian Banknote and records and presents the achievements of one of the greatest and most extraordinary Australians.Only two remain. Cost includes shipping within Australia. |
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Douglas Mawson Charcoal Print
Price: $150.00 Available is a limited edition charcoal print of Douglas Mawson by Vladas Meskensas. Only 99 prints were ever produced. They come unframed (710mm by 860mm) and the cost includes shipping within Australia. |
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Nails Used in the Original Hut Construction
Price: $150.00 A limited number of nails used in the construction of the huts in 1912 have been recovered during conservation work and with special permission from the Australian Antarctic Division are being used to help raise funds for the conservation of the huts. Encased in acrylic they are an historic reminder of the “heroic era” and ideal paperweights. Cost includes shipping within Australia. |
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Heard Island Signed Prints
Price: $100.00 Beautiful prints titled “Evening on Fairchild Beach, Heard Island” personally signed by artist Alasdair McGregor. Unframed. Cost includes shipping within Australia. |
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“Home of the Blizzard”Price: $22,000.00 This oil on canvas painting titled “Home of the Blizzard” is a magnificent portrayal of Mawson’s Huts and the Antarctic blizzard. The original one and only masterpiece was painted by artist Alasdair McGregor in 1998, and donated to the Foundation by Kordia Group – a major sponsor for the conservation project. Measuring 1800mm x 1200mm, “Home of the Blizzard” is now available for purchase. Cost includes shipping within Australia.
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Replica of Dr Douglas Mawson’s Chair
Price: $3750 Limited Edition replicas of the folding wood and canvas chair used by Dr Douglas Mawson is his “den”, in a corner of the headquarters of the 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition at Cape Denison are to be sold to raise funds for the conservation of Mawson’s Huts. Made from oak and canvas, the chair used by Dr Mawson still remains in the icy cubicle he used as his “office” and sleeping quarters. The feet of the chair are embedded in ice and it remains in the exact position Mawson left it when he departed for home in December 1913. The Mawson’s Huts Foundation is producing the chairs in partnership with Moo Design, a furniture design and manufacturing company, which specialises in crafting high quality items. The chairs will be made using American Oak or hickory and just 20 of them will be produced, each carrying a small, numbered bronze plaque on the back together with a framed colour photograph of the chair sitting in the den taken by photographer and artist Alasdair McGregor. He captured this poignant image during his 1997-98 visit to the huts as a member of the Mawson’s Huts Foundation expedition. The 20 chairs will be sold for $3750 each. Moo Design is a collaborative enterprise between artist and photographer, Angus McDonald and long time woodworker, John Madden, who has hand-crafted furniture for 15 years and has a particularly strong fascination for chair making. Their enterprise designs and produces highly finished, hand-made pieces mainly for the top-end Australian and overseas markets. McDonald and Madden are both excited to be involved in this project with the Foundation; “ The chair has an evocative presence and conjures up a strong sense of Dr. Mawson in that heroic time and place where Australia’s Antarctic history began “ says McDonald. Madden adds “ It is beautifully conceived chair for the conditions, sturdy, comfortable and portable; and exhibiting simple lines and practical elegance, typical of the era. We are working carefully to do it justice.” |
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First Day Covers
Price: From $5.00 For the 1997-98 Mawson’s Huts Foundation Expedition the Australian Post Office provided a special postmark which was used to cancel numbered envelopes with four different combinations of Australian Antarctic Territory stamps. All envelopes were cancelled at Cape Denison in January 1998 and also stamped with the rare PACKET BOAT mark on arrival back at Bluff, New Zealand. Each envelope has an insert signed by all members of the 1997-98 expedition. Envelopes with the following stamp combinations are available, all of which include postage within Australia: Two 45 cent stamps ($5.00) One 95 cent stamp ($6.00) One $1.05 stamp ($8.00) One $1.20 stamp ($10.00) A set of all the above ($25.00) |
