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’."