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Institutional metadata
Reg No.
Af,B115.1
PRN
EPF11313
Add ID/s
MISC.B. 21/6~*H6 [Stevens Sales Catalogues. 9810] (AOA library shelf mark)
Title/s
Curiosities. A Catalogue of a valuable Collection of Benin Curios (Object)
Object Name/s
catalogue
Material/s
paper
Technique/s
printed
Description (full)
Auction catalogue: J. C. Stevens. Quarto; bound in boards, buckram spine with gold lettering. Text printed in black and white, with handwritten annotations.
Dimension/s
Height: 20.40 cm~Width: 16.30 cm (closed)
Producer/s
Printed by: Pettitt & Cox
Date/s
1898
Prod. Place/s
Printed in: London
Assoc. Name/s
Made for: Stevens‘ Auction Rooms Ltd
Assoc. Ethnic Name/s
Associated with: Edo
Assoc. Place/s
Associated with: Benin City (Lots 121-204; 204a-208a; 205-208)
Inscription/s
Inscription:~ Inscription details: annotation (inside catalogue, margins) in English~ Inscription quoted: ~ Inscription note: Handwritten in pencil. Names of vendors and purchase prices.
Curator s Comment/s
J.C. Stevens auction catalogue, Monday 4 April 1898. Sale No. 9810. Objects associated with the Kingdom of Benin as follows:
Lots 121-204, pp.9-15. ‘Brought home from Benin City, West Africa by an Officer who took part in the Benin City Expedition, 1897.‘
Lots 204a-208a, pp.15-16. ‘Benin Curios. Taken by R.W.Dyer, H.M.S. "St George"‘.
Lots 205-208, p.16. ‘Curios, etc. from City of Benin, West Coast of Africa‘.
By jhudson
11 May 2023
URL
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/EA_Af-B115-1