Chubb Patent Padlock

[Tarzan]

Hi all.just received this beautiful Chubb patent padlock.serial number 1135152 which I believe dates it to the 1880s....it is in good working condition but not the original key...it's a thing of beauty ..measurements are height 99 mm width 65 mm depth is 32 mm (body is 25 mm without the eschuteon.my scales only measure at 500 grams and the padlock reaches that limit so it weighs more than 500 grams...I am genuinely rapt with the condition of the item and can't wait to receive it's bigger brother..

Heads up.just received this Bad Boy.weighs in at 1350grams.measures 9cm at its widest and 13cm at it longest. 35mm depth (missing escutcheon). Key is not original.dates to early 1900s I believe.also inscribed with Makers To His Majesty....Queen Victoria passed and King assumed the Throne.Chubb's Patent lock..Missing escutcheon but still a beautiful padlock..

[Tarzan]

Serial number1534832

[Huw Eastwood]

1.35 kilos of Chubb, that's a lump, very impressive. It's worth getting oldlock to cut a nice period key from a shorter blank as that one looks like they used a safe blank, it's way too long.

[Tarzan]

It seems that an original key is hard to come by on old locks,and is the icing on the cake if you happen to be lucky enough to have one on any old lock .

[Gary Stephenson]

The manifoils I have seen on ministry safes on warships seemed to have done ok, but can understand the possibility of some locks vibrating open.

[chubbbramah]

The manifoils I have seen on ministry safes on warships seemed to have done ok.

The Manifoil lock was designed with awareness of the unreliability of the basic Sargent design on ships.