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Description: | Specimen button in gilt metal. It is dome-shaped with a shank. Obverse: 'CONE N.E. OF PT. BARROW INVESTIGATOR - AUGT 1850 ENTERPRISE - AUGT 1851. PLOVER AT PORT CLARENCE 1852. SQUADRON WITH STEAMERS SEARCHING N & W OF PARRY ISLAND 1852. DEPOTS OF PROVISIONS REFUGE INLET . PORT LEOPOLD & ADMIRALTY INLET IN BARROW STRAITS.' Reverse: 'ARCTIC EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.' See also AAA4308.
On a label: 'These buttons were made for the Polar expedition of 1848-49 to give to the Esquimaux in the hope of their falling in to the hands of the expedition of Franklin which left England in 1845. All perished 1847.' This label is now missing. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Subjects: | specimen buttons Investigator fl.1848 (HMS) Cracroft Sophie Portsmouth Royal Naval Museum Enterprise 1848 (HMS) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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