- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Flannel trousers with buttons. Worn by Ruben Francombe, a seaman of H.M.S. "Alert" in 1875.
- Geographical reference
- Arctic
- Cultural groups
- European
- Person
- Field collector Reuben Francombe
- Field collector HMS Alert
- PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
- Date / Period
- Date made: On or before 1875
- Date collected
- ?On or before 1875
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 11/03/1886
- Materials and processes
- Material Textile, Material Wood Plant, Process Stitched, Process Woven
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1886.1.800 Other numbers: 86
- Research and responses
Please note that there is no further information about Francombe in the Donor Index cards at the Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities [L.Ph 24/3/2004] Reuben Francombe was one of six brothers all born and brought up in Oxford (information supplied by John Graham whose great grandfather was David Francombe, one of Reuben Francombe's brothers). [ZM 9/4/2005]
1886.1.800
Flannel trousers with buttons. Worn by Ruben Francombe, a seaman of H.M.S. "Alert" in 1875.
1886.1.800
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