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Description: | A relic of Sir John Franklin's last expedition 1845-48. Two plain metal buttons with shanks.
They were bought from the Inuit by the McClintock Search Expedition on 3 March 1859, near Cape Victoria, on the Boothia Peninsula. Thet were referred to by McClintock as 'a few small naval and other metal buttons', readily sold for a few needles each, also the buttons which they wore as ornaments on their dresses'.
caption: Buttons | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | McClintock Expedition Fox 1855 Portsmouth Francis Leopold Franklin buttons Royal Naval Museum John McClintock | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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