Key
Category
Metalwork
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal
Measurements
6 ins (Length)
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Shaw's Corner, Hertfordshire
NT 1274960.1
Summary
Master Key to the Malvern Theatre (in a presentation box ). The key, probably brass with copper plating, has an end to fit a cylinder lock mounted on a fluted column, with a pierced leaf-shaped handle, composed of scrolling leaf work held round with two ribbons and surmounted by a concave-sided shield. .
Provenance
Bequest of George Bernard Shaw, 1950
Marks and inscriptions
On shield part of key: "MASTER KEY TO MALVERN THEATRE" on one side, "GEORGE BERNARD SHAW MALVERN FESTIVAL 1929-1930" on the other.