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Chastity belts
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A young man has no need to find the right key to fit woman's chastity belt, as her Crusader husband has locked it with a combination lock. Photomechanical reproduction.
Reference: 27795i
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M0001263: Reproduction of an illustration depicting a man attaching or removing a chasity belt on a nude woman sitting on a bed
Date: 19 August 1930Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/11/95Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
M0012510: Iron chastity belt, 15th-16th century
Date: May 1952Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/111/82Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
M0012514: Steel chastity belt, 16th century
Date: May 1952Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/111/86Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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A knight who has returned home from the Crusades sits in his bedchamber bemoaning the fact that he has left the key to his wife's chastity belt in Jerusalem. Ink drawing by B. Roy, c.1900.
Roy, Bernard, 1845-1919.Reference: 27798i