A silver fiddle-pattern tablespoon belonging to Sir John Franklin from the 1845 British Northwest Passage Expedition led by Sir John Franklin. The back of the handle bears the Franklin crest-a conger eel's head, between two branches. The spoon has London hallmarks, the date code for 1844-45 and the maker’s mark 'G.A.' for George Adams. ‘W.W’ is roughly scratched on the back and front of the handle. William Wentzell was an Able Seaman on HMS 'Terror'. He was 33 at the time he joined the expedition and came from London. The initials of crew members marked on officer's silver cutlery suggest that it was distributed amongst the men in an attempt to save it.

The tablespoon was bartered from a group of Inuit by Captain F. L. McClintock's sledge team on 7 May 1859 near Cape Norton, east side of King William Island where McClintock wrote 'I purchased from them six pieces of silver plate, bearing the crests or initials of Franklin, Crozier, Fairholme and McDonald,...' In his appendix McClintock records 'Two tablespoons; upon one is scratched "W.W.," on the other "W.G.;" these bear the Franklin crest;...' [McClintock, Voyage of the Fox (1859), pages 260, and 370].

It is not certain that the silver tablespoon was displayed at the Royal Naval Museum, Greenwich. The item is shown in - 'Stereoscopic slides of the relics of Sir John Franklin's Expedition' photographed by Lieutenant Cheyne RN, at the United Services Museum, Whitehall, No. 9 (bottom centre).