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Franklin relics

North America

Type

armament t&e, ammunition: ball, musket(11 pieces)

armament t&e, ammunition: cartridge, wire(3)

armament t&e, edged weapon: arrow

armament t&e, edged weapon: bow

armament t&e, edged weapon: pike head

Arrow

Badge: Royal Hanovarian Guelphic Order, 2nd class

Block

Block model

Block sheave

Book

Boot

Bow

Canned food

Cat-o'-nine-tails

ceremonial artifact: flag, sledge

Certificate Case

Chart

clothing, footwear: boot(part)

clothing, footwear: boot, sea

clothing, outerwear: glove(pair)

clothing, outerwear: mitten(glove, outer)

commemorative artifact: medal

Commemorative medal

Cup

Dessert spoon

Dip circle

Direction post

Disc

Dish

documentary artifact: book

documentary artifact: book, hymn

documentary artifact: case, certificate

documentary artifact: playbill

documentary artifact: ship plan: profile

documentary artifact: ship plan: propeller, screw

documentary artifact: tin, record ?

Figure

File

food processing t&e: stove(3 pieces)

food service t&e: fork, table

food service t&e: rations: bone, pork(fragment)

food service t&e: rations: can, food

food service t&e: rations: can, food(soup)

food service t&e: rations: can, potato(part)

food service t&e: rations: canister, tea

food service t&e: rations: sample, meat

food service t&e: rations: tin

food service t&e: rations: tin, meat ?

food service t&e: rations: tin, pemmican

food service t&e: rations: tin, soup ?

food service t&e: spoon, dessert

food service t&e: spoon, table

food service t&e: spoon, tea

Fork

Full hull model

Full hull model; Block model

Glove

Gloves

household accessory: ashtray

iceworking t&e: knife, snow ?

Keel

Knife

land transport accessory: harness, sledge

Life saving award

Lifesaving award

MAP-SHEET

Mast

Meat can

Meat dish

Meat sample

Medal

medal, British: Lifesaving Medal: Royal National Lifeboat Institution Silver Medal 1824-1857

medical & psychological t&e: chest, medicine

Medicine chest

Mitten

musical t&e: violin

Musket balls

Order

original art: print

Packet of needles

Painting

Pemmican tin

personal gear: flask, pocket water

personal gear: goggles, snow

personal gear: goggles, snow(part)

personal gear: knife

personal gear: purse, bead

personal symbol: coat of arms, royal

personal symbol: crest

personal symbol: Royal Hanovarian Guelphic Order

personal symbol: seal, admiralty

Pike-head

Plate

Playbill

Pocket chronometer

Pocket water flask

Pork bone

presentation artifact: badge, Knight Commander

presentation artifact: cup

Profile

Purse

Record tin

regulative & protective t&e: cat-o'-nine-tails(sealed pattern)

relic: disc(fragment)

Sailmaker's palm

Sea boot

Seal

Sextant eyepieces

Shako plate

Shotgun

Sledge flag

Sledge harness

Snow goggles

Snow knife

Soup tin

Spoon

Stove

surveying & navigational t&e: circle, dip

surveying & navigational t&e: eyepiece, sextant(two)

Tea canister

Tea spoon

Technical drawing

textileworking t&e: needles, packet of

textileworking t&e: palm, sailmaker's

timekeeping t&e: case, watch(fragment)

timekeeping t&e: chronometer, pocket

Tin

Tureen with lid and stand

Two eyepieces, sextant

uniform accessory: plate, shako(Royal Marine cap badge)

Violin

visual communication t&e: post, direction

Watch

Watch cap

Watch dust cover

water transport: exploration/research vessel: bomb vessel (HMS)

water transport: exploration/research vessel: exploration vessel

water transport: fighting vessel: bomb vessel (HMS)

water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked)

water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel

water transport: sailing vessel: brig

water transport: sailing vessel: cutter

water transport: steam vessel: screw vessel, single

water transport: steam vessel: yacht

water transport accessory: block(fragment)

water transport accessory: hoop, mast(fragment)

water transport accessory: keel

water transport accessory: sheave, block(fragment) ?

Wire cartridges

woodworking t&e: file

written communication t&e: seal

Materials

antler

autotype

baize

black ink

blue colourwash

blued-steel

bone

brass

British conifer (pine)

British oak

brown colourwash

canvas

caribou (Rangifer tarandus) antler

caribou (Rangifer tarandus) sinew

caribou (Rangifer tarandus) skin

cloth

coating: enamel

copper

cotton

diamond

earthenware

enamel

engraving

engraving, stipple

fabric

felt

flesh

gilt

gilt brass

glass

gold

green ink

grey colourwash

hand sewn

iron

lacquer

lead

leather

leather (cattle)

leather (lamb)

linen

mahogany

metal

metal: iron

musk ox (Ovibos moschatus) horn

oak

oil on canvas

paint

paper

Pork bone (British)

ptarmigan (Lagopus muta or Lagopus lagopus) feather

red ink

rope (tails)

silk

silver

silver-gilt

steel

tin

twine

varnish

willow

wood

wood (handle)

wood (walnut)

wood: lignum vitae, ?

wool

Display Location

Display - Polar Worlds Gallery

Not on display

Creator

Adams, George

Anonymous

Arnold, John Roger

Beechey, Richard Brydges

D, W

D. & H. Edwards & Co.

E. Terry & Co

Eaton, William

F. Barnes & Co

Franklin, Jane

Gien Faïencerie

Goldner, Stephen

Griffith's Island Printing Office

Hicks, G. H.

H V

John & Henry Lias

John Millikin

K, F J

Lucas, John

Melville, Henry

Mercator, Gerardus

Mortimer & Hunt

Musin, Francois Etienne

Negelen, Joseph Mathias

Robinson

Robinson, Thomas Charles

Romilly, Amelie

Rowlandson, Thomas

Smith, William Thomas

Smyth, William Henry

Thomas Ward & Co

Turcon, C.

Turner, Charles

Unknown

Wyon, William

Places

Canada

Chatham Dockyard

Chester

Edinburgh

England

Gien

London

Oxford

Staffordshire

Woolwich Dockyard

Yeominster, England

Events

Antarctic Exploration: James Clark Ross's voyage, 1838-1843

Arctic Exploration: Back's voyage, 1836-1837

Arctic Exploration: Dr John Rae, 1853-1854

Arctic Exploration: Franklin's First Overland Expedition, 1819-1822

Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Austin, 1850-1851

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Belcher, 1852-1854

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Hall, 1864-1869

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Inglefield, 1852

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClintock, 1857-1859

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Penny, 1850-1851

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Schwatka, 1878-1880

Arctic Exploration: Parry's first voyage, 1819-1820

Arctic Exploration: Parry's second voyage, 1821-1823

Vessels

Assistance (1835)

Erebus (1826)

Fox (1855)

Great Britain (1843)

Isabel fl.1850

Lady Franklin 1850

Pioneer fl.1850 (HMS)

Resolute (purchased 1850)

Sophia fl.1850 (HMS)

Terror (1813)

Exhibition

Death in the ice: the shocking story of Franklin's final voyage

North-West Passage

People

Barrow, John

Bradshaw, Benjamin

Closson, William

Crozier, Francis Rawden Moira

Cunningham, William Keating

Ebierbing, Joseph

Fairholme, James Walter

Fitzjames, James

Fowler, William

Franklin, Jane

Franklin, John

Gore, Graham

Greenwich Hospital

Hickey, Cornelius

Hobson, William Robert

I W

Kellett, Henry

King George IV

Liverpool City Bacteriologist's Laboratory

Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty

McClintock, Francis Leopold

McClure, Robert John Le Mesurier

Negelen, Joseph Mathias

Netchillik, Ookwolik

Osborn, Rear Sherard

Parry, William Edward

Penny, William

Pim, Bedford Clapperton Tryvillion

Prince Albert, Consort of Queen Victoria

Reed, William

Reid, James

Reynolds Bequest

Rhodes, William

Royal Arctic Theatre

Royal United Service Institution

Sargent, Robert Orme

Terry, Thomas

Century

17th

18th

19th

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Inuit-adapted snow knife (Snow knife)

Cat-o'-nine-tails

Part of a wooden ship's block cheek. (Block)

Gloves

Goldner's Patent Preserved Meat tin (Tin)

Three wire shot cartridges (Wire cartridges)

Certificate Case

The top of a preserved potato tin (Tin)

AAA4310; Serving plate, Arctic Scenery- overall view and detail on back of plate

Meat dish

Silver fiddle-pattern teaspoon belonging to Lt. James W. Fairholme. (Tea spoon)

Spoon

Masonic glass seal (Seal)

Canvas man-hauling harness allocated to HMS Terror (1813) (Sledge harness)

A steel file blade and bone handle for an Inuit-adapted file made from salvaged material from the Franklin Expedition (File)

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