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Description: | This brass eyepiece end from a telescope has a pivoted lens cover. It is one of the relics of Sir John Franklin's last expedition (1845-48) in search of the North-West Passage. The eyepiece was obtained from the Inuit at Repulse Bay in 1854 by the Rae Expedition. The Inuit said that 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 official Catalogue of the Royal United Service Museum' 1908 Lieutenant Colonel A. Leetham and B.E. Sargeaunt, p.43, no. 391.
caption: Telescope eyepiece end | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | glass object covers Royal United Service Institution Rae Expedition Barrow John | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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