charm(?)
- Museum number
- Af.4695
- Description
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Charm, a small black horn carved with lines painted white; an iron ring for suspension is passed through a hole in the larger end.
- Production date
- 19thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Height: 18 centimetres
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Width: 5 centimetres
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Depth: 3.80 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Acquisition notes
- Christy numbers 4677 to 4806 were given to the BM by the Lords of the Admiralty in 1855 on the closure of the naval Haslar Hospital (qv) in Gosport. There is no record of who gave it to the hospital, or where it had come from.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af.4695
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Af186?C1.4695 (old CDMS no.)