Expedition Equipment

Colt revolver owned by Wills

Metal with wooden handle, 19.5cm (overall length)
Pictures Collection, H15352

This revolver was found in Burke's hand. The original barrel has been cut down.

Wills' Pin fire revolver

Metal with wooden handle, 18.5cm (overall length)
Pictures Collection, H15353

This revolver has an octagonal barrel.

Surveyor's plotting scales with case

Ivory and leather, 16.5 x 3.4cm (case)
Troughton & Simms, London, makers
Pictures Collection, H530

Owned by William John Wills.

Sunclock

Brass, 5.1cm diameter
Pictures Collection, H13278

Used in the relief expedition under John McKinlay.

Compass

Brass, 6.1cm diameter
Pictures Collection, H13191

This compass was used used by Charles Phillips on Howitt's Relief Expedition in 1861.

Chequebook issued to Robert O'Hara Burke

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