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Attributed to? John Wesley Livingston (1835-1897)
Glass plate negative of mail armour and a helmet c. 1860-1900
21.7 x 16.4 cm (whole object) | RCIN 2400627

Attributed to? John Wesley Livingston (1835-1897)
Glass plate negative of mail armour and a helmet c. 1860-1900
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A 9 x 7 inch glass plate negative of chain armour said to have belonged to Emir Wad el Nujumi, a Sudanese-Madhist commander who was killed at the Battle of Toski in 1889. The armour consists of a tunic of mail (RCIN 67950), a helmet (RCIN 71674) and a pair of armlets and gauntlets (RCIN 67690). Photographed for the Windsor Castle Inventory of Arms Part 1 North Corridor, no.114 (RCIN 1122400).
The armour was sent to Queen Victoria by General Francis Grenfell, 1889. Grenfell's forces defeated Emir Abdel Rahman Wad del Nejumi at the Battle of Toski on 3 August 1889. Grenfell wrote to the Queen's Private Secretary, Arthur Bigge, on 20 September: "When we took Nejumi's camp we found a Curious Suit of Chain Armour which was afterwards identified as Nejumi's own. There was a general wish of the troops engaged that some trophy should be presented to Her Majesty The Queen. The Armour is very curious, and may have belonged to the times of the Crusaders, and it had been in the family of the Sheikh of the Jaalin tribe for a great number of years… It is an object of interest as having belonged to the man who killed Gordon & Hicks, and took Khartoum." -
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21.7 x 16.4 cm (whole object)
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