What: A tabot taken by the British Museum’s expert on the expedition, Richard Rivington Holmes
Where: The British Museum, Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3DG
British museum database:
Museum number: Af1868,1001.21
Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Richard Rivington Holmes
Acquisition date: 1868
What: A tabot given by the then Secretary of State for India, Sir Stafford Henry Northcote
Where: The British Museum, Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3DG
British museum database:
Museum number: Af1868,1005.9
Donated by: Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh
Acquisition date: 1868
What: A tabot given by the then Secretary of State for India, Sir Stafford Henry Northcote
Where: The British Museum, Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3DG
British museum database:
Museum number: Af1868,1005.4
Donated by: Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh
Acquisition date: 1868
What: Hide shield with silver mounts, engraved: “N. H. Stewart Dragoon Guards Magdala April 13 1868”
Where: Unknown
Pictured on page 27 of the catalogue ‘Wars, Art, Racism & Slavery‘, published in 2009 by the collector and dealer Michael Graham-Stewart.
AbeBooks describes ‘Wars, Art, Racism & Slavery‘ as ‘A catalogue of Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection which was purchased by the National Maritime Museum [National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London] in 2002, having been assembled by Graham-Stewart over a period of 14 years.” But there is no mention of the shield in the Greenwich museums’ online database.
Images of the shield and the central engraving are also on sale at Bridgeman Images.
A disc around the centre of the shield is engraved: “N. H. Stewart Dragoon Guards Magdala April 13 1868”.
What: A pair of spurs “owned by Sir Charles Fraser and acquired by him in Abyssinia during the Abyssinian campaign, 1868”
Where: The National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 4HT
The catalogue entry describes a “pair of spurs, 1868 (c); wrought iron ten pointed rowel mounted in a double bracket which attaches to a heel grip; the outside of the grips and the rowel mount are decorated with small swags and dots; owned by Sir Charles Fraser and acquired by him in Abyssinia during the Abyssinian campaign, 1868.
Museum accession number
Horse Furniture 1965-04-45-
What: Abyssinian banner
Where: Where: The National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 4HT
The catalogue entry lists two “items associated with the First Lord Napier of Magdala” – one Abyssinian banner, 1868 (c) and one Tibetan illuminated silk scroll.
Museum accession number
Flags and Colours 1963-06-55-