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Description: | Relic of Sir John Franklin's last expedition 1845-48. A silver, fiddle-pattern dessert spoon owned by Sir John Franklin (1786-1847). The back of the handle bears the Franklin crest: a conger eel's head, between two branches.
It was obtained from the Inuit at Repulse Bay in 1854 by the Rae Expedition. The Inuit said they had found the material at a camp to the north west of the mouth of the Back River where a party of Europeans had died of starvation. The spoon has London hallmarks with the date letter for 1844-55 and the maker's mark of George Adams (the initials 'GA').
It was presented to Greenwich Hospital by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, 2 December 1854.
It will need to be checked for object numbers and its condition activity updated
caption: Spoon | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Hospital spoons Franklin Rae Expedition John Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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