Card of the Day - 2022-07-06

These measure 123 x 68 m/m when first issued, but like ours were trimmed to the size of the actual card. They are numbered, but when they are cut to that size, or smaller sometimes, the numbers become a casualty, so it was decided to list the cards in our handbook at HC-11

Cadbury Bros was registered in 1899 and they have a particular connection with this set which may not be known to you all. The Guinness Book of Records/Scott tells all.  As it says, this was the first expedition of 1901-1904, not the one recorded by these cards. 

There is a strange fact though, because though Cadbury boasted of being the sole supplier of [eating] chocolate to both expeditions, according to this expedition postcard they were not, for Fry clearly states on there that they supplied both cocoa, and chocolate to the 1910-12 Polar expedition. In fact when Scott’s supply hut was uncovered from the ice they found Fry’s cocoa still in the tins, and some were brought back home to Bristol.