A silver fiddle-pattern teaspoon belonging to Alexander McDonald, Assistant Surgeon on HMS Terror, from the 1845 British Northwest Passage Expedition led by Sir John Franklin. The front of the handle is engraved with the monogram 'A Mc D'. The teaspoon has London hallmarks, the date code for 1844, and the maker’s initials 'RC' for Randall Chatterton. There is a second teaspoon owned by McDonald in the collection (AAA2482).

The teaspoon was bartered from a group of Inuit by Captain F. L. McClintock's sledge team on one of two possible occasions, The first was in early March 1859 near Cape Victoria, Boothia Peninsula. Here the sledge team met about 45 Inuit who bartered relics that included 'six silver spoons and forks...' The second occasion was 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 allocates one of McDonald's teaspoons to the latter meeting.' [McClintock, Voyage of the Fox (1859), pages 232, 260, and 370]. This teaspoon has historically been associated with the boat near Erebus Bay, but neither McClintock's account or appendix, nor Lt William Hobson's report mention McDonald's name when listing the officers to whom the silverware belonged. however, (see McClintock, pp296-297, 366; Stenton, The Report of Lt. W Hobson, 'Arctic', vol. 67, No. 4 (Dec 2014) p518).

It is not certain that the silver teaspoon 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 left).