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Object connections:
| Collection | Franklin relics, Polar Equipment and Relics |
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| Gallery location | Not on display |
| Events | Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848, Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClintock, 1857-1859 |
| Vessels | Fox (1855) |
Object details:
| Object ID | AAA2090 |
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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'. |
| Date made | before 1845 |
| Artist/Maker | Unknown |
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| Credit | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. |
| Materials | gilt metal |
| Measurements | Overall: 6 x 13 mm |
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