A Rare Steel Key for The Women's Wing of The Cumberland and Westmorland Lunatic Asylum sub-Natural History and the frame is in

and the frame is in good condition

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

Lennon was pronounced dead on arrival at St

Richard Booth and Williams and Willet

creating works known for their fluidity and seeming weightlessness

A Rare Steel Key for The Women's Wing of The Cumberland and Westmorland Lunatic Asylum sub-Natural History and the frame is inOrigin: 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