An Unusual Late 19thC Coconut Box sub-Art & Sculpture It is sturdy and ready

It is sturdy and ready for use and we have given it a light wax

aka the Middlesex County Asylum

being confined to the production of dryness and rawness of the throat

As such this is a picture with enormous authority

An Unusual Late 19thC Coconut Box sub-Art & Sculpture It is sturdy and readyOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Late 19thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1890 1900Width: 4Height: 2. 75Depth: 3The small coconut, being brass hinged and opening to reveal a gold satin lined interior, possibly for sewing or pin storage, the whole surviving intact from the late nineteenth century. The box is in good overall condition with no replacement parts. Coconuts have been carved into boxes, and money boxes in particular, since the nineteenth century, though