[Fram.] 1930. Minne fra “Fram”. Læangst Nord og Sør [Trans.: 1930. Souvenir of the “Fram”. Farthest North and South]. Kr.a. Kemigr. Anstalt, [1930].

A ticket, approx. 8 x 3 1/2” (20.5 x 9cm.), printed to one side only, inset portraits of Nansen, Sverdup and Amundsen with the dates of their expeditions aboard the Fram, inset image of the Fram in ice, ticket number printed at top right, priced by hand, and signed by Oscar Wisting at foot, in very good condition, together with a letter from Toralv Duus Lorentzen on Polarskipet “Fram” headed paper to Mr. Littlewood, presenting the ticket with some accompanying modern photographs of Nansen on the Fram.

The Fram, the ship on which both Fridtjof Nansen and Otto Sverdrup sailed, and which took Roald Amundsen to the Antarctic, was by 1929 in a state of disrepair. Lars Christensen funded her restoration in Sandefjord, with Sverdrup supervising the work. In 1930 she was towed to Trondheim, where she took part in the Trøndelag exhibition for business and culture. Visitors paid 1 krøne to go on board, and tickets were issued, and signed, by Oscar Wisting, who had accompanied Roald Amundsen both to the South Pole and also, on the airship Norge, to the North Pole (Amundsen and he were the first two men to visit both poles). Following the exhibition, Fram was finally housed in the museum that bears her name, opening in 1936. The recipient of this example was possibly William Littlewood, oceanographer with the Deep Freeze operations in the Weddell Sea in the 1950s.