One of three brass buttons as worn by Commissioned Naval Officers, Military & Civil Branch 1843-1891. Obtained from the Inuit at Repulse Bay in 1854 by the Rae Expedition and belonged to members of the missing Franklin expedition. The buttons have a foul anchor and crown symbol and are marked on the reverse 'P & S FERMIN, 153 STRAND LONDON TREBLE GILT STANDARD'. The Inuit said that they had found the material at a camp to the north west of the mouth of the Back River where a party of Europeans had died of starvation. The item is shown in the drawing by Edward Pulleyn AAA3972 and in the 'Illustrated London News' November 4 1854 p. 433. It was presented to Greenwich Hospital by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, 2nd December 1854.