A Rare Victorian Lunatic Asylum Key & Weighted Pouch c.1880; ‘Asylum Cage Only’

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A Rare Victorian Lunatic Asylum Key & Weighted Pouch c.1880; ‘Asylum Cage Only’Origin: English Period: Mid Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 90 Length: 4. 75 Width: 2. 75 (at bow) The Pouch: 4 long The heavy Victorian period part barrel shafted iron key having an oval symmetrical bow, the bit with a large cut out, the shank with moulded waisted ripple sections, being marked Asylum Cage Only to the shank, complete with weighted black leather pouch, and surviving from the latter part of Victorian period England. The

the juggler and the tumbler

now professionally framed with ivory mounts and presented glazed in contemporary black frames

She met and married her second husband

acanthus carving to rosette finals to the front supports

The piece has a backward lean (we can supply the associated stand

to celebrate Titanic and her links with Belfast

There is a possibility the paintings have been removed from a three or four fold panel dressing screen

Canvas Heights: 4

the Spanish and the Portuguese have perhaps the longest histories of interacting directly with the peoples of East Asia

The portrait lithograph on paper

Made in England

Width: 6 inches