A Rare Steel Key for The Women's Wing of The Cumberland and Westmorland Lunatic Asylum sub-Natural History Period: Late 1stC AD

Period: Late 1stC AD

With a superb rich colour and deep patination to both the wood and the paint

The reverse reveals the word ‘Hero’ written in pencil

’ survives from an English shop front during the late nineteenth century

with a little fade to the plumage

A Rare Steel Key for The Women's Wing of The Cumberland and Westmorland Lunatic Asylum sub-Natural History Period: Late 1stC ADOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1890 1910Length: 3. 5Width: 1. 25The weighty single steel key with turned barrel for Garlands Asylum at Carlisle, bearing the manufacturer's name of Gibbons of Wolverhampton and stamped "FEMALE, surviving from the late Victorian period. The key remains in original condition with no damages. The construction of asylums was widespread in Britain following The Lunacy Act of 1845, which