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Adze head
armament accessory, ethnographic: spear head
armament accessory: rod, gun cleaning
armament t&e, ammunition: bag, shot
armament t&e, ammunition: ball, musket
armament t&e, ammunition: ball, musket(11 pieces)
armament t&e, ammunition: cap, percussion(94 caps of 3 types)
armament t&e, ammunition: cartridge, wire(2 cartridges)
armament t&e, ammunition: cartridge, wire(3)
armament t&e, ammunition: cartridges, packet of(2 packets)
armament t&e, ammunition: flask, powder
armament t&e, ammunition: flask, shot
armament t&e, ammunition: hook, sword belt spring(fragment)
armament t&e, ammunition: lid, powder case
armament t&e, ammunition: screw plug, powder keg
armament t&e, ammunition: sheath, knife
armament t&e, ammunition: shot
armament t&e, ammunition: tampion, gun
armament t&e, edged weapon: arrow
armament t&e, edged weapon: bow
armament t&e, edged weapon: pike head
armament t&e, firearm: musket ?
armament t&e: charger, shot
Arrow
Arrow shaft
Axe
Axe handle
Badge: Royal Hanovarian Guelphic Order, 2nd class
Ball of wool
Barrel hoop fragments
Belaying pin
belt, sword spring-hook
Bible
biological t&e: tweezers, specimen collecting
Block
Block sheave
Boat's thimble
Boat sheet hook
Boat weather-cloth
Boat weather cloth
Bolt
Bone comb
Book
book
Boot
Boot lace
Bootlace
Bottle
Bottle Top
Bow
Bowl
Box
Box, dip circle
Box lid
Bradawl
Brass Fitting
Brass Plate
Brass pocket compass lid
Brass Strip
Brimstone match
Brimstone matches
Bristles
Buckle
Button
Buttons
C
Can
Canned food
Canteen
Canvas
Cap band
ceremonial artifact: flag: ensign, naval(fragment)
Certificate Case
Chest Handle
China
Chronometer box
Cigar case
Clasp Knife
Clay Pipe
Clay pipe
Clothes brush
Clothing
clothing, footwear: boot(part)
clothing, footwear: boot, sea
clothing, footwear: boot, sea(part)
clothing, footwear: heel, shoe(part)
clothing, footwear: shoe(pair)
clothing, outerwear: glove(fragment)
clothing, outerwear: glove(pair)
clothing, outerwear: overcoat(fragments) ?
clothing, outerwear: shirt(fragment)
clothing, outerwear: waistcoat(fragment)
clothing, underwear: stocking(part)
clothing: clothing(part) ?
clothing accessory: band, cap
clothing accessory: brush, clothes
clothing accessory: buckle(5 buckles)
clothing accessory: button
clothing accessory: button(2 buttons)
clothing accessory: button(4 buttons)
clothing accessory: button(5 buttons)
clothing accessory: button(four buttons)
clothing accessory: button(three buttons)
clothing accessory: button(two)
clothing accessory: button(two buttons)
clothing accessory: button, royal naval
clothing accessory: button, royal naval(two buttons)
clothing accessory: cord, gold ?
clothing accessory: lace, boot
clothing accessory: neckerchief
clothing accessory: neckerchief(knotted)
clothing accessory: ribbon
Coat fragment
coat [fragment]
Cobbler's awl
commemorative artifact: medal
Commemorative medal
Compass
Compass Corrector
container: bottle(fragment)
container: box
container: box(fragment) ?
container: lid
container: lid, box
container: tin
Cook's Knife
Copper Plate
Copper plate
Copper sheet fragments
Copper Strip
Copper strip
Corrector magnet
Curtain rod
Dessert fork
Dessert spoon
Dip circle
Dip circle (part)
Direction post
Disc
Dish
documentary artifact: bible
documentary artifact: bible: New Testament
documentary artifact: book
documentary artifact: book(fragment)
documentary artifact: book, hymn
documentary artifact: book, prayer
documentary artifact: case, certificate
documentary artifact: manual, student's(fragment-2 pages only)
documentary artifact: paper, government
documentary artifact: programme
documentary artifact: tin, record ?
Dowel
Drawing
Elm board
Eyebolt shackle
Fabric fragments
File
Fish hook
fishing & trapping t&e: hook, fish
fishing & trapping t&e: line, fishing
fishing & trapping t&e: spear, seal(part) ?
Fishing line
Flask stopper
Flint & steel
Flint and steel
Folding rule
food processing t&e: knife, cook's
food processing t&e: stove(3 pieces)
food service t&e: blade, knife
food service t&e: bottle, wine
food service t&e: bowl
food service t&e: canteen
food service t&e: canteen(parts)
food service t&e: canteen, water
food service t&e: china(fragment)
food service t&e: cup, tea(fragment)
food service t&e: dish ?
food service t&e: flask, tin
food service t&e: fork, dessert
food service t&e: fork, table
food service t&e: handle, knife ?
food service t&e: knife, table
food service t&e: rations: bone, pork(fragment)
food service t&e: rations: can, food
food service t&e: rations: can, food(soup)
food service t&e: rations: can, potato(part)
food service t&e: rations: can, soup
food service t&e: rations: can ?
food service t&e: rations: canister, soup(3 canisters)
food service t&e: rations: canister, tea
food service t&e: rations: keg, vinegar(in pieces)
food service t&e: rations: sample, meat
food service t&e: rations: tin
food service t&e: rations: tin, meat
food service t&e: rations: tin, meat(fragment)
food service t&e: rations: tin, meat ?
food service t&e: rations: tin, pemmican
food service t&e: rations: tin, soup ?
food service t&e: spoon, dessert
food service t&e: spoon, table
food service t&e: spoon, tea
food service t&e: stave, water keg bung
food service t&e: stopper, flask
food service t&e: top, bottle
Fork
Gimlet
Glove
Gloves
Gold cord
Government paper
Gun-cleaning rod
Gun cleaning rod
Gun tampion
Gun tompion
Hinge
Hip flask
Hone
household accessory: ashtray
household accessory: handle, chest
household accessory: rod, curtain(two pieces)
household accessory: scissors
iceworking t&e: knife, snow
iceworking t&e: knife, snow ?
Iron bar
Iron file
Iron fitting
Iron plate
Iron plug
Keel
Knife
Knife blade
Knife clasp
Knife handle
Knife sheath
Lance head
land transport accessory: handle, whip
land transport accessory: harness, sledge
land transport accessory: runner, sledge(2 runners)
land transport component: runner, sledge
Lead sheet
leatherworking t&e: awl, cobbler's
leatherworking t&e: ulu(blade only)
Lid
lighting device: box, match
lighting device: box, match(vesta case)
lighting device: flint & steel
lighting device: match, brimstone(6)
Manuscript
Marine chronometer
Mast
Match box
Material
Meat can
Meat sample
Meat tin
Medal
medical & psychological t&e: bottle
medical & psychological t&e: chest, medicine
medical & psychological t&e: tourniquet, surgeon's
Medicine chest
Metal plate
multiple use artifact: hone
multiple use artifact: rope
multiple use artifact: rope(fragment)
multiple use artifact: twine, waxed(roll of)
Musket ball
Musket balls
Nail
Naval ensign
Navy sail canvas
Neckerchief
Oak chock
Oar
optical t&e: cover, object glass
optical t&e: draw tube, telescope(eyepiece draw tube)
optical t&e: draw tube, telescope(two pieces)
optical t&e: eyepiece, telescope
optical t&e: telescope(fragment)
optical t&e: telescope component: ring, object glass
Order
Overcoat fragments
Packet of cartridges
Packet of needles
Packets of cartridges
Paddle
Pemmican tin
Pencil case
Pen knife
Percussion caps
personal gear: axe(part)
personal gear: bag, seaman's(fragment) ?
personal gear: blade, knife
personal gear: case, cigar(fragment)
personal gear: flask, hip
personal gear: flask, pocket water
personal gear: goggles, snow
personal gear: goggles, snow(part)
personal gear: handle, axe
personal gear: knife
personal gear: knife, clasp
personal gear: knife, pen
personal gear: lenses, spectacle
personal gear: purse, bead
personal gear: shovel(part)
personal gear: smoking gear: pipe, clay
personal gear: smoking gear: pipe, clay(13 fragments of at least 3 pipes)
personal gear: stem, pipe
personal gear: wallet
personal symbol: broad arrow
personal symbol: coat of arms, royal
personal symbol: crest
personal symbol: Royal Hanovarian Guelphic Order
personal symbol: seal, admiralty
Pike-head
Pike head
Pipe stem
Pocket chronometer
Pocket comb
Pocket compass
Pocket watch
Pocket water flask
Pork bone
Port-fire
Powder-case lid
Powder case lid
Powder case screw-plug
Powder flask
Powder keg screw-plug
Powder keg screw plug
Prayer book
presentation artifact: badge, Knight Commander
Print
Programme
Purse
Record tin
relic: bar, iron
relic: bolt
relic: bolt(with washer)
relic: bolt ?
relic: bristles
relic: canvas
relic: copper, sheet(6 fragments)
relic: disc(fragment)
relic: fabric(4 fragments)
relic: fitting, brass(top of powder flask?)
relic: fitting, iron
relic: material
relic: nail(part)
relic: plate, brass
relic: plate, copper
relic: plate, copper(circular)
relic: plate, iron
relic: plate, metal(fragment)
relic: plug, iron
relic: sheet, lead
relic: strip, copper
relic: timber
Ribbon
Rivet
Rope
Rope grommet
Royal Naval button
Sail
Sail canvas
Sailcloth
Sailmaker's palm
Saw
Scented soap
Scissors
Scissors, sewing
Sea boot
Seal
Sealing wax
Seaman's bag
Sewing set
Sextant eyepieces
Shako plate
Sheet block
Shirt
Shirt fragment
Shoe
Shoe heel
Shot
Shot bag
Shot charger
Shot flask
Shotgun
Shot in glove fingers
Shovel
Sledge harness
Sledge runner
Snow goggles
Snow knife
Soup can
Soup canister
Soup tin
Spear head
Specimen collecting tweezers
Spectacle lenses
Spindle
Spoon
Stanchion
Stanchions
Stave
Stocking
Stove
Student's manual
Surgeon's tourniquet
surveying & navigational t&e: box, dip circle ?
surveying & navigational t&e: circle, dip
surveying & navigational t&e: compass(part)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, pocket
surveying & navigational t&e: eyepiece, sextant(two)
surveying & navigational t&e: magnet, corrector ?
Sword belt spring
Sword belt spring-hook
Sword belt spring hook
sword spring-hook belt
Table spoon
Tablespoon
Tea canister
Tea cup
Teacup fragment
Tea spoon
Telescope
Telescope (part)
Telescope barrel and objective lens
Telescope draw tube
Telescope draw tube and objective lens assembly
Telescope eyepiece
Telescope eyepiece cover
Telescope eyepiece end
Telescope lens
Telescope part
telescope tube
textileworking t&e: needles, packet of
textileworking t&e: palm, sailmaker's
textileworking t&e: scissors, sewing
textileworking t&e: set, sewing(housewife)
textileworking t&e: wool, ball of
Three wire cartridges
Timber
Timber fragment
timekeeper: chronometer, marine(8 day)
timekeeping t&e: box, chronometer
timekeeping t&e: case, watch(fragment)
timekeeping t&e: chain, watch
timekeeping t&e: chain, watch(fragment)
timekeeping t&e: chronometer, pocket
timekeeping t&e: watch, pocket(fragment)
timekeeping t&e: wheel, watch
Tin
Tinder box damper
Tin flask
toilet article: comb, bone
toilet article: comb, pocket
toilet article: soap, scented(4 fragments)
Toothbrush handle
Tourniquet
Two eyepieces, sextant
Ulu
uniform accessory: plate, shako(Royal Marine cap badge)
Vesta case
Vinegar keg
visual communication t&e: port-fire
visual communication t&e: post, direction
Wallet
Watch
Watch back
Watch barrel
Watch cap
Watch case
Watch chain
Watch dust cover
Watch plate
Watch relic
Watch wheel
Water canteen
Water keg bung-stave
Water keg bung stave
water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel
water transport: sailing vessel: brig
water transport: steam vessel: yacht
water transport accessory: block
water transport accessory: board, elm
water transport accessory: canvas, navy sail(fragment)
water transport accessory: nail
water transport accessory: thimble, boat's
water transport accessory: toggle, wooden
Waxed twine
Whip handle
Wine bottle
Wire cartridge
Wire cartridges
Wooden toggle
woodworking t&e: dowel
woodworking t&e: file
woodworking t&e: gimlet(common shell gimlet)
written communication t&e: case, pencil
Yard hoop
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animal hair
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caribou (Rangifer tarandus) sinew
caribou (Rangifer tarandus) skin
caribou skin
cherrywood
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clay
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coating: enamel
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copper alloy
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enamel
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ptarmigan (Lagopus muta or Lagopus lagopus) feather
rope
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steel
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wood
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wood: lignum vitae, ?
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Adams, George
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Boggett & Reynolds
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Chawner, William
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Eley, William
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Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Austin, 1850-1851
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Belcher, 1852-1854
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Burwash, 1926
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Collinson, 1850-1855
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Hall, 1864-1869
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Inglefield, 1852
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClintock, 1857-1859
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Lady Franklin 1850
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Closson, William
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Crozier, Francis Rawden Moira
Ebierbing, Joseph
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Forder, William
Fowler, William
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Greenwich Hospital
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Liverpool City Bacteriologist's Laboratory
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Mark, William
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Netchillik, Ookwolik
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Peddie, John Smart
Peglar, Henry Peter
Penny, William
Petersen, Johan Carl Christian
Prince Albert, Consort of Queen Victoria
Reed, William
Reid, James
Rhodes, William
Royal United Service Institution
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Two packets of gun cartridges (Packets of cartridges)
Copper strip
Timber
Iron fitting
Iron bar
Copper Plate
Bolt
Bolt
Dip circle (part)
Iron plate
Neckerchief
Fragments of the cuff of a coat (Coat fragment)
Fragment of patterned silk hand or neckerchief (Neckerchief)
Three pieces of iron plate. (Barrel hoop fragments)
Button
Copper Plate
Telescope eyepiece end
Fragment of white teacup with a blue and red rim (Tea cup)
Wooden clothes brush with ivory veneer. (Clothes brush)
Two water-damaged and stuck together Government papers (Government paper)
Folding horn and lacquer pocket comb. (Pocket comb)
Base of a brass pocket compass. (Pocket compass)
Part of a grass cigar case (Cigar case)
A metal pencil case (Pencil case)
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