2 Tala Lady Elizabeth and Bobs

This piece was struck to honor Lady Elizabeth — better known as "Lady Elizabeth," the iron-hulled sailing barque that ran aground in Whalebone Bay, East Falkland, in 1913 and has sat rusting there ever since — and "Bobs," almost certainly a reference to Field Marshal Lord Roberts, one of the most decorated British commanders of the Victorian era, who died in France in 1914 while visiting Indian troops on the Western Front. The pairing of a shipwreck and a field marshal on a Samoan commemorative remains an idiosyncratic curatorial choice that the catalog record alone cannot explain.