A 19thC Human Skull Inscribed for Phrenological Demonstration antiques There is a circular vacant

There is a circular vacant space where there would have been a brass or metal name plaque just over the opening

unusually and desirably supported by the original ephemera

The hanging fittings are in good order and show no signs of any damage

London 1802-1820

A 19thC Human Skull Inscribed for Phrenological Demonstration antiques There is a circular vacantOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Late 19thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1900Height: 6. 5Width: 5Depth: 8The largely in tact human skull, dating to the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, having been used for medical study or phrenological demonstration and inscribed in both in English and Latin in the early part of the twentieth century in ink, naming the regions and portions such as transverse sulcus and fossa for cerebrum, the cranium and mandible