#1845-1848

[ltwilliammowett]

Knife with bone handle, a relic from the Franklin Expedtion 1845-1848

A bone-handled table knife inscribed with initials of Cornelius Hickley, Caulker's Mate of HMS Terror. He was 24 at the time of the expedition and came from Limerick. The item 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.

[walzerjahrhundert]

Speisesaal des Palais Kaskel-Oppenheim in Dresden, before 1939

[ltwilliammowett]

Snow goggles of Sir John Franklin's last expedition 1845-8

The left one, were found in a boat abandoned at Erebus Bay. The lences are blue to reduced the glare of the sunlight reflected off the snow to prevent snow-blindness, and the wire mesh reduced light leakage around the edges.

The right one are roughly made from leather with the eyes screened with wire gauze and were possibly made on board ship. They would have been tied on (part of the string remains)