1898 padlock after cleaning..

[Mark kus]

Found this nice old brass padlock yesterday threw it in my tumbler for a few hours with soap and water looks nice!!
Before and after.

 

[fwcrawford]

Nice find!!!!
Cleaned up great too... great save!!

 

[hawgdawg]

Nice ,,, I love when it's easy to date older objects ,,,

 

[dirt lizard]

Very cool Mark love those old locks

 

[CT Todd]

I like that one. Very nice

 

[Dale(Ia)]

Found this nice old brass padlock yesterday threw it in my tumbler for a few hours with soap and water looks nice!!
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Whoa! That's a beautiful lock!! Congrat's on a nice find!!!

 

[bootyhoundpa]

Tumbler did a nice job... looks great...

 

[Confetrit]

Great looking find and Save on the lock. It really cleaned up nice. I have never seen one like this. You Did Good.

 

[Mark kus]

Thanks everyone this park is right on LIS 2 minutes from my house hundreds of acres ! I just decided to hunt the field in the entrance and found some nice stuff the lock was in a middle of a depression in the field I'm told a barn use to stand there which makes sense lots of old square nails.
The lock was about 8" down and I thought I had another half!
The only silver we got from that area was the 1/2 Canadian dime which I found 1880 thought I had my seated half dime!
I used stainless steel shot and hot water and dish soap and tumbled for a couple hours.
Mark

 

[park pirate]

Found this nice old brass padlock yesterday threw it in my tumbler for a few hours with soap and water looks nice!!
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Awesome lock..

 

[fastdraw]

Found this nice old brass padlock yesterday threw it in my tumbler for a few hours with soap and water looks nice!!
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That's a really cool find. You should bring it to a locksmith shop and have them make you a key for it.

 

[Mark kus]

That's a really cool find. You should bring it to a locksmith shop and have them make you a key for it.

Thanks I was wondering about that! be very cool locks in excellent condition
Have any idea what that might cost?
Thanks
Mark

 

[fastdraw]

Thanks I was wondering about that! be very cool locks in excellent condition
Have any idea what that might cost?
Thanks
Mark

I had a key made for an old lock I had... and it ran me $45.00 But then you have a WORKING piece of history.

 

[Mark kus]

I had a key made for an old lock I had... and it ran me $45.00 But then you have a WORKING piece of history.

Definitely cool I’ll look into it thank you!
Mark