Original British Late 18th Century Silver-Mounted “Bugbear” Carved Coconut Inscribed “OWYHEE 1778 H.M.S. RESOLUTION” for Captain James Cook’s Final Voyage Category_MG 42 Mounts saddles and other leather goods

saddles and other leather goods

though there is a bit of plating loss on the bayonet latch

held together with some standard silver thread

we know Dorothy Isabel Fry attended the school of nursing at Germantown Hospital in Philadelphia

who are not marked on their bases

Original British Late 18th Century Silver-Mounted “Bugbear” Carved Coconut Inscribed “OWYHEE 1778 H.M.S. RESOLUTION” for Captain James Cook’s Final Voyage Category_MG 42 Mounts saddles and other leather goodsOriginal Item: One of a Kind. This is an extraordinary late 18th century British sailor carved coconut vessel, traditionally known as a bugbear, fitted with an elegant silver mounted lid engraved: OWYHEE 1778 H. M. S. RESOLUTION The inscription directly references Captain James Cooks third and final Pacific voyage and the 1778 arrival of HMS Resolution in the Hawaiian Islands, then called the Sandwich Islands by Cook. Owyhee was an early English