Forum: Safe Plates, Badges & Escutcheons
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https://youtu.be/jHW_Kkfosn8?si=VGSSv1pvHAhdhpQt here's one I prepared earlier Made around 1898 if I recall not 1900
house rim locks were much lighter than your commercial blank,have a few somewhere of the fold up ones the short ones were fold ups usually for sliding interior doors ,dining,library,etc 2nd pic...
Huw, I tried to PM you about that Tann guarded lever lock, but for some reason it will not let me PM you. Gary
I noticed you called it a skeleton key. It is likely a lever lock key blank. Could be a warded key blank but doubtful being a 1865 patent. Yes it could be from prior to receiving the patent but...
The M&W Co folding bronze keys I have seen all have a patent 1869. My key does not which I assume means it may pre-date the patent?? Thoughts
This safe appeared just before the end of the century, named to suggest it was ahead of its time. Price was in poor health in his last years, with a live-in nurse. Without his drive, the company...
George Price doors