Items found in the boat on King William Island

A second box containing items found in the boat on King William Island. These consist of a small pair of scissors rolled up in black paper and to which adheres a printed Government paper, a small bead purse, a piece of sealing wax, German-silver stopper of a pocket flask, a brass match box, a small tin cylinder (possibly to hold matches), a piece of canvas, the cover of a Testament, part of a grass cigar case, a piece of scented soap, a pair of goggles made of stout leather and wire gauze, a seaman's clasp knife, two small glass stoppered bottles (full), a German-sliver pencil case, a pair of silver forceps, two spectacle glasses, a snooding line rolled up on a piece of leather, an awl, spring hooks of a sword belt, a gold-lace band, a brass charger for holding two charges of shot, a glass seal with Freemason symbol, a pice of thin gold twist or cord, a gimblet, part of a cherry-stick pipe stem, two table knives with white handles - one of which is marked W.R., and a small brass pocket compass.

Object Details

ID: ALB1402.5
Type: Photographic print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Cheyne, J. P.
Date made: 1859
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 85 mm x 175 mm
Parts: 'A Series of Stereoscopic Views of the Franklin Relics, brought home in the Fox by Captain McClintock, September 1859' (Photograph album)
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