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Thread: Need help to find right lock ?
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05-12-05, 02:49 PM #1Stumbler Guest
Need help to find right lock ?
I feel a fraud in here - I'm not a lock collector, but I need some help to identify what lock I need so I'd thought I'd ask for help here :)
I bought a c1900 pine cabinet. Bit rough, nothing fancy. Two doors at front that open out ( like a wardrobe ). Now there are two possible lock places. There's a fancy silver keyhole cover with hole for key ( hole seems a bit rough ) but no mechanism behind it ( and no marks either ). So just keyhole cover. About three inches higher there's a piece cut out of the cabinet. To the right at back on one door there's the mark where something rectangular was, box like. Other corresponding door has a 'hummock' of wood on rim of door and 'hummock' of wood on back of door. 'Hummock' = ronnded excess. What type of lock do I need and which 'bit' should the lock be on ie bit with keyhole or area above. it ?Would appreciate any help and apologies if ( as I suspect ) this is the wrong place to ask this question.
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Another point Gary is that although the key is marked 'patent' nothing has been found in the British patent abridgements, so maybe its one that was 'applied for' but not granted... The mystery...
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