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    Default Door Knob Spare Key Box...

    I has this for a while. The only thing was wrong with it the Tubular Lock was damage. I did have to destroy it and got lucky that I found another Tubular Lock just like it. I have not see any of these around and doesn't have any name on it. Your guess is just better than my....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Timothy View Post
    I has this for a while. The only thing was wrong with it the Tubular Lock was damage. I did have to destroy it and got lucky that I found another Tubular Lock just like it. I have not see any of these around and doesn't have any name on it. Your guess is just better than my....
    Looks like a unique item, I've never seen one and it doesn't resemble any of the many spare key boxes I am aware of that are on the market today.

    Pete Schifferli

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    Default Door Knob Spare Key Box...

    Well do know had been around for a long time as I was thinking maybe in or around the 1900 went the first Tubular Cam came out. I believe they was use in and around about 1940 and up....Timothy.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Timothy View Post
    Well do know had been around for a long time as I was thinking maybe in or around the 1900 went the first Tubular Cam came out. I believe they was use in and around about 1940 and up....Timothy.....
    The Chicago Ace lock was introduced in 1933.*

    From Locks and Lockmakers of America, 3rd Edition, Pg. 78 by the late Thomas F. Hennessy, Sr.

    Pete Schifferli

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