Primative Padlock & Keys; ID Help, Please

[wlwhittier]

This is a recent acquisition; the seller could offer no provenance at all.

Weight is 12.4oz/352gr.

All comments welcome; ID, when and where made, and/or special purpose.

No maker's mark, patent info, or other lettering visible.

Thanks! wlw

[Huw Eastwood]

Looks typical of the sort of stuff still being churned out by countless back-street workshops from India to The Middle East- they often exaggerate the 'aged' or 'rough' look on styles of locks that are often best described as a 'Frankenstein' mix-of-everything.

Theres several design and construction issues there, but for me the big pointer is how deliberately rough they've left the sides of the inner sandwiched brass casting, but then failed to chamfer or radius the circumference of both sides of the outer steel plates. On a genuinely old padlock these exposed edges would take all the knocks and abrasions and would have dulled Considerably with time. Sorry but it doesn't all add up right to me- hope you didn't pay too much for it.