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Iran is another country where locks were made using centuries-old techniques and patterns. Makes dating difficult, but when an 'antique' lock comes with two original keys, be wary. 'Rare' is another...
Well done- very nearly right! It would not have survived at all in Pompeii- which was incinerated , but along the coast about 10 miles is Herculaneum which was engulfed in a volcanic mudslide at the...
What an honour that would be for those involved in a project so prestigious! It's certainly got me speculating the amount of use the Aubin has potentially had, and the levels of wear that its...
Suppose it depends how you want to define a safe, but if hobnails count then the Roman arca ferrata are much older again. Not that many have survived but there are a few examples plus buildings left...
i agree with you that nothing used to be properly secure but if you think in more general terms, about strongboxes that were more than merely wooden boxes, the hobnails were a progression from wooden...
The patent, concerning ease of production, is 1939: https://patents.google.com/patent/GB508247A/en?oq=gb508247 Thes push-key padlocks were common in America than Britain. Their ancestor is Strutt's...
Union 6-Lever Padlock