Large Bramah Challenge Type Safe Key

[mercury]

What a great looking key. I could only imagine what it was used on!
Now for the reality... I’d love to examine this key under my microscope to see it detail. You never know, you may even be able to see the wear marks of the sliders, etc.

It is a wonderful looking key indeed! I look forward to Huw putting us out of this suspense & providing more information.

Given Huw is quite capable of creating keys such as in the thread linked below, it might well be a modern frankenkey made from part of an old key, or it could even be modern and made from scratch.

Indeed, a microscope would be needed to have a chance of determining if it's genuine. Check out : https://www.antique-locks.com/showth...ghlight=Bramah

No matter what it's origin, in my opinion it's a great key.

...Mark

[Huw Eastwood]

Ok Gents, thank you for all your comments, I guess its time to reveal all.

It is indeed another of my creations, and top marks if you sussed its a franken.

The main barrel started life as a waste stub of steel bar a week last Monday, and the bow is off an old bridge ward key to which I then added the additional extra fine fluting to blend it all together.

All the patina was added late on Friday. It still looked like this up until a few hours before I posted, so Doug's 'made yesterday' was pretty much spot on!