A lovely working condition cupboard lock, European baroque period, c. 1650-1680.
A very nice condition lock with it's matching key and ready to be installed in an antique cupboard or just for exhibition in a nice collection of early European metal antiques.
Size: c. 15 cm. long with the key being c. 9 cm. long.
Provenance: Danish Private collection of Grethe Pedersen, Ledøje, Denmark, ca. 1950-1997.
A rare type of iron key from box or cabinet very, European c. later 16th. century.
An interesting key with a disc shaped decoration on the bow and complicated stem and bit.
Size: 92 mm. long.
Condition: Nice VF, good metal.
Ex. Danish Collection of keys.
A rare folding key, probably British, and late 18th/19th. century.
This type of key is of course a 'must have' for serious Key and Lock collectors and quite difficult to find on the market.
Size: 196 mm. when opened and 113 mm. closed, making it a very large key of the type.
Condition: Good Very fine, excellent metal with minor rust and black patina.
Reff...
A very beautiful late renaissance to early Baroque door lock plate, probably german or Northern Europe, c. late 16th.-early 17th. century.
Fine openwork style iron wrought and cut and nicely etched with floral decorations.
Size: 24,5 cm. long.
Ex. Danish Collection of keys.
A very rare huge early vault or bankboks key, late 17th. century.
A massive key with a huge bit. Finely made, perhaps by a gunmaker. The hollow stem is long and fluted, and with a very large and elaborately made bit. Such a stem was a new invention for security keys in the period, making it much, much harder to copy. The bow compressed and with Gothic style decoration along the stem.
Size: Near 18 cm...