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Howdy All!

A week or so back I was hitting a backyard of a small preschool over the weekend when nobody was around. I got permission from the school after researching that the old house was the original farm house there from the late 1800's. Using my Nox 800, I found the usual sea of trash, lots of toys, a ton of modern clad and a few cool relics. The old Yale lock pictures below is pretty neat and the arm still functions (won't lock though, too much wear and tear) The buckle is something that I am trying to figure out.. I'm not sure if it's old or pretty modern. Any help would be appreciated! 

Thanks in advance !

 

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Thanks, Kac! That lock appears to be early 1900's, easily - https://us.yalehome.com/en/about-yale/our-brands/

I'm starting to think that buckle is some old horse tack after some research.

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Good find and good research on the lock.

You could be correct on the buckle also, that would have been my first guess on it.

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I like that lock.  It appears that the loop attached to the lock shank is for attaching a chain (or chord) so that when the lock is temporarily free from its intended position it just hangs awaiting re-securing.

Also, the fact that it isn't frozen up probably means it's made some kind of low chemiclly reactive alloy.  Most if not all the locks I've found detecting are so badly seized as to be unusable.  Did you find the matching key?

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Does that one have a cylinder? If so the pins might be rotted away or stuck.

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