Letter Opener
Whitbourne Museum
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| Nom de l'objet : | Letter Opener |
| Type de l'objet : | Knife, Utility |
| Classification de l'objet : | Man-made artefact |
| Catégorie de l'objet : | Unclassifiable Artefacts |
| Sous-catégorie de l'objet : | Multiple Use Artefacts |
| Discipline : | Local History |
| Matériaux : | Metal Wood |
| Technique de fabrication : | Carced Cast |
| Numéro d'accession : | NoAccession13 |
| Province d'utilisation : | Newfoundland and Labrador Pre-confederation Newfoundland |
| Pays d'utilisation : | Canada Dominion of Newfoundland |
| Culture : | Canadian Dominion of Newfoundland |
| Secteur géo-culturel : | North America |
| Contexte culturel : | Souvenir |
| Date de début de production : | 1845 |
| Date de fin de production : | 1900 |
| Période : | 2nd Half 19th Century |
| Description : | This artefact is a letter opener made of wood from the stern post of a sailing ship. The opener has a flat wooden blade that is rounded at the top. As it progresses toward the handle the blade flares out into an oval shape. The handle is marked by a metal collar that encases a section of the wood. |
| Commentaires : | The letter opener has been made from the stern post of one of the ships used in Sir John Franklin's 1845-47 polar expedition. Sir John Franklin was an experienced officer in Britain's Royal Navy. He served with the navy at the battle of Copenhagen in 1801, the battle of Trafalgar in 1805, and the battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. He was also an experienced explorer, having explored the coast of Australia and mapped over 3000 miles of British North America's north coast. In 1845 Franklin set out with two ships, the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, to map the North West Passage. Franklin set out in April of 1845 with ships loaded with enough provisions for three years. Franklin was never heard from again. His ships had become stuck in ice and abandoned by the crew who were lost in the arctic and were thought to have starved to death on one of the many islands. Years later explorers found the bodies of a few of Franklins crew but Franklin himself was never found. Autopsies conducted on the bodies of his crew in the 1980's, showed that they died from lead poisoning due to faulty seals on their canned provisions. |
| Fonctions : | The letter opener was used at Sir Robert Bond's Whitbourne estate known as 'The Grange. |
| Longueur : | 17 |
| Unité de mesure linéaire : | cm |
| Nombre d'objets : | 1 |
| Nombre de parties composantes : | 1 |
| Nom des parties composantes : | knife |
| Objets associés : | Also See NoAccession02 NoAccession06 NoAccession17 NoAccession18 |
| Établissement : | Whitbourne Museum |
| Ville de l'établissement : | Whitbourne |
| Province de l'établissement : | Newfoundland and Labrador |
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