• Title
  Blue and white china mug, once the property of John Adams, 1763-1829, the last surviving mutineer from H.M.S. Bounty
• Call number
  R 806
  Status: On display. Objects Gallery. Case 3, Shelf 52
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  Before 1829
• Type of material
  Objects
• Reference code
  887746
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 mug - 9.4 cm high; 10 cm diameter - china, with transfer decoration
  
• Scope and Content
  The mug has transfer decoration of landscape with figures; outer and interior rim have vine leaf, flower and fruit pattern.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010
• General note
  
  John Adams was the last surviving mutineer from HMS Bounty on Pitcairn Island, and died there in 1829 (see Australian encyclopedia, 1977, vol. 1, p. 356).
  
  Handle is missing, internal rim is chipped, mug has vertical cracks, rim of base is chipped.
  
  A letter from Josiah Adams, grandson of John Adams, to his daughter, dated 13 March, 1905, regarding the mug, is filed with other related material at MLMSS 5444.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  The mug has no maker's mark, number or date.
  
  The letter 'A' is scratched into the base.
• Name
  Adams, John, 1764-1829
  
• Topic
  mugs
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20791551

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