A relic of Sir John Franklin's last expedition 1845-48. The back of a silver watch case, 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. The case has the hall marks for Chester and is dated 1826-27 with the maker's initials 'JH'. The item is shown in the drawing by Edward Pulleyn (AAA3972). It was presented to Greenwich Hospital by the Admiralty.