A Rare Workman’s Key for Napsbury Lunatic Asylum c.1900 sub-Natural History The underside reveals some old

The underside reveals some old chewing gum which we thought we’d better leave in situ

and boil them together to the consumption of the juice

and surface losses

75” at socle base (all at extremities)The finely cast plaster study of Julius Caesar (100 BC–44 BC) in his prime years

the glass and wood in good order and the intricate background fade but still beautiful

A Rare Workman’s Key for Napsbury Lunatic Asylum c.1900 sub-Natural History The underside reveals some oldOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1890 1910Length: 3. 5Width: 1. 25The single steel key with turned barrel for Napsbury Asylum, stamped "WORKMAN MW 3027 surviving from the zeniths of the Victorian period and once being part of a bunch of keys sourced from this asylum. The key remains in original condition with no damages. The construction of asylums was widespread in Britain following The Lunacy Act of 1845, which