Finial and cross *

What: An Ethiopian Orthodox cross – possibly taken from the top of a church

Where: The National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 4HT

The database entry describes a “staff finial, 13 Apr 1868; owned by Sir Charles Fraser; openwork flat brass Abyssinian Coptic cross with pointed arms and domed, cross pieces, with smaller crosses placed at angles, impressed designs and crescent emerging from socket; associated with Abyssinia (1868).”