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Twelve fragments of clay pipe
Twelve fragments of clay pipes (8 stem fragments and 4 bowl fragments) from the 1845 Northwest Passage Expedition led by Sir John Franklin. AAA2262.3 is marked '..ASCALL', possibly Thomas Pascall who was a clay pipe manufacturer at Dartford from around 1832 to before 1861 (retired by census of that year).
The clay pipe fragments except AAA2262.8 were recovered by the US expedition under Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka between 1878-1880. They are described as either 'Item 87. Various small articles from Cape Felix' or 'Item 90. Small articles found at Cape Felix' in the 1881 catalogue of items that he sent back to Britain in 1881 [TNA, ADM 1/6600]. However, neither list specifies what is contained in each grouping.
Schwatka's expedition visited Cape Felix between 3 and 7 July 1879. Gilder recounted '...three miles south of Cape Felix, was what appeared to be a torn-down cairn, and a quantity of canvas and course red woollen stuff, pieces of blue cloth, broken bottles...showing that there had been a permanent camping place.' [Gilder, page 133]. This was the same site that McClintock had visited in 1859 and recorded that the material found but not taken away contained 'piece of tobacco and broken pipe' [McClintock, page 369]. This site is believed to have been occupied by twelve officers and men from the Franklin expedition in the summer of 1847.
AAA2262.8, a pipe bowl, was found by Lieutenant William R. Hobson's sledge team on 24 May 1859 at a place where a ship's boat was discovered on the coast of Erebus Bay, King William Island, as part of the search expedition led by Captain F. L. McClintock.
The fragments of clay pipe were displayed together at the Royal Naval Museum, Greenwich, in a group in 'Case 7, No. 8. 'Pieces of china, clay pipes &c'.
The clay pipe fragments except AAA2262.8 were recovered by the US expedition under Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka between 1878-1880. They are described as either 'Item 87. Various small articles from Cape Felix' or 'Item 90. Small articles found at Cape Felix' in the 1881 catalogue of items that he sent back to Britain in 1881 [TNA, ADM 1/6600]. However, neither list specifies what is contained in each grouping.
Schwatka's expedition visited Cape Felix between 3 and 7 July 1879. Gilder recounted '...three miles south of Cape Felix, was what appeared to be a torn-down cairn, and a quantity of canvas and course red woollen stuff, pieces of blue cloth, broken bottles...showing that there had been a permanent camping place.' [Gilder, page 133]. This was the same site that McClintock had visited in 1859 and recorded that the material found but not taken away contained 'piece of tobacco and broken pipe' [McClintock, page 369]. This site is believed to have been occupied by twelve officers and men from the Franklin expedition in the summer of 1847.
AAA2262.8, a pipe bowl, was found by Lieutenant William R. Hobson's sledge team on 24 May 1859 at a place where a ship's boat was discovered on the coast of Erebus Bay, King William Island, as part of the search expedition led by Captain F. L. McClintock.
The fragments of clay pipe were displayed together at the Royal Naval Museum, Greenwich, in a group in 'Case 7, No. 8. 'Pieces of china, clay pipes &c'.
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