Catalogue card: "Brass armlet, decorated a jour, with 3 bands of looped straps in between which are 2 solid bands with conventional decoration - floral."
As Beddington is known to have donated other 1897 Benin City material to the British Museum, the terms Kingdom of Benin and Benin City have been added with queries
Catalogue card reads, in black in: "25.62 | Benin / West Africa / Brass armlet about 5 1/2 inches, decorated a jour - with 3 bands of looped straps in between which are 2 solid bands with conventional decoration - floral / c.f. Antique Works of Art from Benin Plate 23 fig 140. (Pitt-Rivers 1900) / DD Herbert Beddington."
Red circular sticker in bottom right corner of card.
Possibly donated by Henry Herbert Melville Beddington (1863 - 1929) who also gave eight Benin pieces to the British Museum in 1921 collected by Sir Ralph Denham Rayment Moor (1860- 1909), who was part of the 1897 Benin Expedition