What: A tabot from the collection of “Colonel Mackie”
Where: The British Museum, Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3DG
British museum database:
Museum number: Af1968,0401.1
Purchased from: Miss Mackie in 1968
Previous owner/ex-collection: Col Mackie
There is no mention of Magdala in the database entry. But a Major Mackie served in the 1868 Abyssinian campaign with the Transport Corps, according to Hart’s Army List.
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