A cylindrical tin Goldner food canister from the 1845 Northwest Passage Expedition led by Sir John Franklin. It is made of iron plate, tinned and soldered with traces of red paint on the base. The top is missing. The can probably held soup. 'GOLDNER'S PATENT' is embossed on the base.

This tin was recovered by a party from the US expedition under Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka between 1878 and 1880. The paper label on the bottom states '22. From Wall Bay', corresponding with 'Item 22. Tin found in a native cache at Wall Bay' in the 1881 catalogue of items that he sent back to Britain in 1881. [TNA, ADM 1/6600].

Schwatka's expedition visited Cape Maria Louisa twice, which is just south of Wall Bay: on the way to Cape Felix in mid June 1879 and then around 12 July on the return trip. Gilder records that they found a 'several red cans marked GOLDNER'S PATENT' among the items retrieved from the cache. [Gilder, page 148]. Heinrich Klutschak reported that an Inuk had told the expedition that he had cached these items under a rock for lack of transport but was unable to find them when he came back. [Klutschak, page 94].

The '(5)' in white paint on the base of the tin indicates that it was displayed in the Royal Naval Museum, Greenwich, with the original description of 'Case 6, No. 5. Tin canister from Wall Bay'. The objects in Case 6 were (inaccurately) amalgamated into one entry in the published version: 'Case 6. Native tools &c., obtained from the Ookosiksillik Esquimaux at Hayes River, and made of parts belonging to H.M. Ships "Erebus" and "Terror".' It was also in Display 15 in the Royal Naval Exhibition at Chelsea in 1891.