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inventarisnummer | PLT0030
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collectie | Plate
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museum | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
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datum | 18th century
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omschrijving | Tray for candle snuffers which belonged to Captain James Cook (1728-79) and his wife Elizabeth; it is part of a set with the candle snuffers (PLT0029).
The tray is of rectangular form with rounded corners, and a gadrooned rim. It is made of Sheffield plate with a tinned base.
It was part of a collection of Cook relics given by Henry A. Baron to the Admiralty in the 1930s. Cook's sister Margaret married James Fleck, and their daughter Indiana married H. Jenkins of London, a chemist. Their daughter Mary Cook Jenkins married her cousin Henry A. Baron.
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afmetingen | Overall: 20 x 225 x 100 mm
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