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Does anyone here have any Hiatt Flexible pattern handcuffs they want to sell or trade? Photos attached. Also after Chubb Excort handcuffs with or without keys.
Example of Mappin’s Patent Best 8-slide safe lock as illustrated in Samuel Whitfield’s sales leaflet of 1865. Walter Sandell Mappin was granted his patent 20th January 1862.
the first combination lock I came across when starting out, was given a cloth bank cash bag full of SAM parts and told, see if you can get that back together
Just to avoid confusion - Whitfields safe co used Mappins Patent locks. So they are one & the same ...
I thought about the lathe/mill solutions and decided they would be a lot of work. I'd have to find a way to solidly grasp the lock body, yet be able to align it translationally in two axes, and also...
They are beautiful locks from a time when cost was the least consideration and brass and phosphor bronze were used everywhere- often half an inch thick ! can honestly say never saw a single one out...
That's a particularly nice one Syd with the Mappin's patent markings as well as Whitfield's. Had a lot of those (think I've still got 4 or 5) but can't ever recall seeing any marked Mappin's, all...
Is it a Mappin