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    Default Push Lock History

    Here's a photo of a lock I recently purchased at a garage sale. The owners had little idea of its history except that a long time ago, a relative had brought it home from India and it was referred to as a push lock. When the "ring" part is inserted into the cylinder leaf springs snap open to lock it The key is inserted into the opposite end and compresses the springs to allow withdrawal of the ring. Since there appears to be little room for variation of the key it doesn't appear to be very secure. I would appreciate any information about this type of lock and whether it has any significant value.
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    The correct name for the mechanism is 'Barbed Spring'. The Chinese are credited with inventing it before the advent of recorded histoy. They were and are wildly popular throughout asia and trhe middle east and are still made new to this day. Many cultures make them with an animal design where when assembled the lock resembles a horse or sheep or some toher animal figure. The design of your actually looks more Turkish than Indian, but then Alexander the Great had influence in both of those areas adn the design may have spread all those years ago.
    BBE.

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