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Description: | A relic of Sir John Franklin's last expedition 1845-48. A silver, fiddle-pattern table fork owned by Sir John Franklin (1786-1847). The back of the handle bears the Franklin crest-a conger eel's head, between two branches. There are three prongs only remaining and the fork has 'W C' scratched roughly on the back, seemingly indicating that it was distributed to a crew member: William Closson, Able Seaman HMS 'Erebus'.
Closson came from Shetland and was 25 in 1845.The fork has London hallmarks, the date code for 1844-45 and the maker's mark of George Adams 'G.A.'. It was bought from the Inuit by the McClintock Search Expedition on 3 March 1859, near Cape Victoria, on the Boothia Peninsula.
caption: Fork
caption: Fork- Franklin's crest
caption: Fork- crew initials | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | McClintock Expedition forks Fox 1855 Portsmouth Francis Leopold Franklin Adams Royal Naval Museum John George McClintock | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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