A Scarce Early 20thC Solid Graffitied Oak Solitary Confinement Pillow sub-Macabre- Medicine Width: 89 inches

Width: 89 inches

inscribed ‘Smith

Adulteration

yellows and whites

related to the more familiar coot and moorhen

A Scarce Early 20thC Solid Graffitied Oak Solitary Confinement Pillow sub-Macabre- Medicine Width: 89 inchesOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Early 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1900 25Height: 6Width: 30Depth: 11. 5Dating from the early twentieth century, the solid English oak solitary confinement cell pillow, profusely carved with inmates names, once bolted and integral to the sleeping surface, lacquered to the facing side and of sloped rectangular form and surviving in original condition from the first quarter of twentieth century England. The artifact has not