The door of a portable stove from the 1845 British Northwest Passage Expedition led by Sir John Franklin. The burner compartment door, now separated from the original stove, has a catch made from a key.

The cooking apparatus was found by Lieutenant William R. Hobson's sledge team on 3 May 1859 at an abandoned camp site at Cape Felix, King William Island, as part of the search expedition led by Captain F. L. McClintock. Hobson described it as '...a small copper stove, apparently ship made,..' [Stenton, 'Arctic' v.69, No. 4, p. 515]. McClintock recorded it as 'a small, roughly made copper apparatus for cooking' [McClintock, 'Voyage of the Fox' (1860), p.367].

The door has a pasted label '16' on it, indicating that it was displayed at the Royal Naval Museum, Greenwich, in Case 3, No. 16. 'Part of a boat's cooking apparatus'. The item is possibly 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. 1.