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1924 Everest Expedition Wayfarers' Club Dinner to North Country Members of the Everest...
1924 Everest Expedition
Wayfarers' Club Dinner to North Country Members of the Everest Expedition, 28th February 1924, folding menu card, printed on three sides, front cover with the pencil autographs of George Leigh Mallory, John F. Hazard, Bentley Beetham, Andrew F. Hazard and Dr W. W. Wakefield, third page with eight further signatures of guests; with Mount Everest Expedition 1922 Postcards, six numbered photographic postcards sold at the dinner to raise funds for the 1924 expedition
[provenance; direct descent from R.G. Plint, a past member and President of the Wayfarers' Club, present at the dinner and a signatory of the card. The dinner and this actual card are mentioned on p 146-7 of Julie Summers' Fearless on Everest]
Wayfarers' Club Dinner to North Country Members of the Everest Expedition, 28th February 1924, folding menu card, printed on three sides, front cover with the pencil autographs of George Leigh Mallory, John F. Hazard, Bentley Beetham, Andrew F. Hazard and Dr W. W. Wakefield, third page with eight further signatures of guests; with Mount Everest Expedition 1922 Postcards, six numbered photographic postcards sold at the dinner to raise funds for the 1924 expedition
[provenance; direct descent from R.G. Plint, a past member and President of the Wayfarers' Club, present at the dinner and a signatory of the card. The dinner and this actual card are mentioned on p 146-7 of Julie Summers' Fearless on Everest]
Sold for £1,400
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