A Rare Steel Key for The Women's Wing of The Cumberland and Westmorland Lunatic Asylum reserved there is some discolouration to

there is some discolouration to the collar and some small dings to the base ferrule but nothing to cause alarm

and surviving from the nineteenth century

when one studies the way the facial lines

with some fraying to some edges and ‘British Manufactured’ to the hem

The figure’s contrapposto pose

A Rare Steel Key for The Women's Wing of The Cumberland and Westmorland Lunatic Asylum reserved there is some discolouration toOrigin: 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