What: A spear head
Where: King’s Own Royal Regiment Museum, Market Square, Lancaster, LA1 1HT
The museum entry has a picture and reads: “Spear head”
Accession Number: KO0229/18
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Ammunition belt *
Published June 18, 2024 / by Andrew Heavens / Leave a CommentWhat: An ammunition belt, with powder and shot
Where: The Duke of Wellington’s Regimental Museum, Bankfield Museum, Boothtown Road, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX3 6HG
One of a number of small items in the museum’s collection
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Sword *
Published June 18, 2024 / by Andrew Heavens / Leave a CommentWhat: Sword
Where: The Duke of Wellington’s Regimental Museum, Bankfield Museum, Boothtown Road, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX3 6HG
One of a number of small items in the museum’s collection
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Wooden club ‘found in the state prison at Magdala’
Published June 18, 2024 / by Andrew Heavens / Leave a CommentWhat: Wooden club with swollen head
Where: The National Museums of Scotland
Sources:
National Museums of Scotland spreadsheet
Accession number: A.L.367.18
Description: Wooden club with swollen head: Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, found in the state prison at Magdala
Acquisition source: Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
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A silver-mounted Abyssinian kaskara and a machete
Published March 05, 2023 / by Andrew Heavens / Leave a CommentWhat: A kaskara sword marked “Magdala 13th April 1868”, etched on one side with the Abyssinian crowned lion and on the other with maker’s initials ‘G.G’, and a machete
Where: Auctioned to unnamed buyer at Christie’s, London on 16 July 2003 for £502.
The Christie’s catalogue entry reads: “The first with straight double-edged European blade (some surface pitting) with two fullers on each face etched with scrolls and strapwork, the ricasso etched on one side with the Abyssinian crowned lion and on the other with maker’s initials ‘G.G’, silver quillons of diamond section swelling at the tips, plain ivory grip inlaid on one side with a silver ‘tau’ cross and with silver collars, and reeded cylindrical silver pommel, in its original tooled red leather scabbard with silver mounts including central band engraved ‘Magdala 13th April 1868’; the second entirely of brass with curved single-edged blade inlaid in silver on one side ‘LEG.XXII.’, and with a silver coin of the Roman Emperor Postumus inset in the brass pommel
29¼in. (74.2cm.) and 21¼in. (54cm.) blades (2)
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A pistol, given to Tewodros by Victoria
Published February 27, 2023 / by Andrew Heavens / Leave a CommentWhat: A pistol, given to Tewodros by Queen Victoria
Where: The Royal Collection, Britain
The catalogue entry, which has a picture, reads: “Percussion Revolver; octagonal blued steel barrel and body engraved with foliate scrolling; walnut grip carved with chequering; blued steel pommel cap engraved with foliate scrolls; oval escutcheon inlaid in silver and engraved with presentation inscription.”
Provenance
Royal Collection catalogue entry – https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/1/collection/61616/percussion-revolver
“Sent to King Tewodros II of Abyssinia (1818-1868) by Queen Victoria, ‘in acknowledgement of the kindness shown by him to her servant Plowden’.”
[Note: Several accounts said Tewodros shot himself with a pistol that had been given to him by Queen Victoria.]
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