Description (Labels & Markings)
The number '1591' has been written on the left side of the Thomas Collection label.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Ring of brass, place [crossed through], 'long open bar' [added in different hand] four stones but all missing

Event Date 2/6/2000
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Traces of old bronze disease present. [K. Sutton]
Event Date 23/5/2001
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Amendments / updates)
1st Thomas Catalogue notes numbers 1-249 as "Bini (Benin City)". [R.Hand]

Event Date 31/5/2001
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
See E 1910.118 and E 1913.3 records for further details about the Thomas Collection from Nigeria. [T.Cotterill]
Event Date 7/5/2001
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Catalogue)
Numbered '42 A' in the Thomas Collection, 1st Catalogue.
Event Date 14/12/2016
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Related Documents)
According to Prof. Paul Basu, SOAS, in an email send to Chris Wingfield on 30 March 2017, following the opening of a Benin display including this object, it "was included in an initial shipment of objects that Thomas sent to the British Museum in April 1909. In the archive of the British Museum's Prehistory & Europe Department there are packing lists with prices paid (for which Thomas was seeking reimbursement) and the ‘ring’, item 42a, is listed as costing 10/-. Elsewhere in a letter to T.A. Joyce at the British Museum Thomas mentions that some of the objects were ‘rather dear, but prices are up in Benin City’."
Event Date 30/3/2017
Author: Chris Wingfield

Description (Physical description)
Brass finger ring with a disc incised with dots, and a long open bar across the top.
Event Date 17/9/2021
Author: Emily Shorter