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    Default Assorted Flat Steel Key Blanks- unexpected find

    Trawling through dozens of old boxes recently I stumbled across a small box of these. We had a good range of different sized flat steel blanks going back but from memory most had the generic round or trefoil bows, mostly for cabinet and drawer locks etc, so a bit unexpected to find these Yale Junior and Willen Blanks for the old Spring night latches.
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    Does anyone know what the smaller ones at top left in photo 2 are for? They seem that bit too small for the latches, the whole bag are unmarked except for one which is strangely stamped 'Made in USA' with 842, of which the numbers are each different sizes! And, 2484 on the reverse of the bow, which is the total opposite being very small and precisely stamped perfectly central.

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    Could it be a warded padlock? although it does look unnecessarily long.

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    If you notice the wider portion of the blade (for the cuts) is actually proportionally much shorter, making the excessive length seem even more odd, there would be more than three quarters of it sticking out the bottom of a padlock!

    Perhaps there were ranges of basic cabinet/cupboard locks with fewer wards which would need some length to clear the timber of the cup'd doors.

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    Default Assorted Flat Steel Key Blanks- unexpected find

    Found this but have no idea where I got this from. You can see one almost like your as Yale key....???....Timothy....
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