The domed bottom of a blue glass bottle from the 1845 Northwest Passage Expedition led by Sir John Franklin. It has the moulded inscription 'POWELL & CO BRISTOL'. Powell's were a bottle manufacturer based in Bristol between about 1831 and 1849. This fragment possibly came from a mineral water bottle.

The piece of bottle was recovered by the US expedition under Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka between 1878-1880. It is described as 'Item 106. Pieces of a glass bottle from Cape Felix' in the 1881 catalogue of items that he sent back to Britain in 1881 [TNA, ADM 1/6600].

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 contained 'Fragments of two broken bottles' [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. William H. Gilder also mentions 'several broken porter and wine bottles stamped 'BRISTOL GLASS-WORKS' at Cape Maria Louisa [Gilder, page 148].

The piece of bottle was displayed at the Royal Naval Museum, Greenwich, in a group in 'Case 7, No. 2. Two pieces of comb, part of a pair of scissors, part of a tin box, and piece of a bottle'.