No idea but funnily enough I was just reading about Henry 'box' Brown "a 19th-century Virginia slave who escaped to freedom at the age of 33 by arranging to have himself mailed in a wooden crate in 1849 to abolitionists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania."

He moved to England and went on tour for 25 years, but it did not mention if he was perhaps the inspiration for our very own Reginald Bray, who famously posted himself in 1903.