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jboerner
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Member # 996

posted 02-06-2007 02:39 AM

Hi everybody,

I'm looking for information about the 14th/15th century barrel padlocks found in york, published in "Craft, Industry and Everyday Life: Finds from Medieval York ". Unfortunatly, everywhere I tried it, the book was out of stock.
Does by chance somebody have this book and/or photos, or better, x-rays or sketches of the padlocks found there?

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Diu Minnezīt
Reconstruction of textiles, armour and daily life
1250,1350,1475
Nuremberg and Paris
http://www.diu-minnezit.de

IG Meisterhauw
Reconstruction of late medieval and early renaissance fencing techniques
http://www.meisterhauw.de

Nuremberg in the middle ages
http://www.nuernberg-im-mittelalter.de

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Woodcrafter
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Member # 197

posted 02-06-2007 09:53 AM

I don't know of what you mean off hand, but it may be what this site sells. There are a half dozen locks there of various sized, also keys. He used to sell reproductions, but I don't see any offered atm. Get the original and treat it as a master.

a number of barrel locks 13 - 14thc

[ 02-06-2007: Message edited by: Woodcrafter ]

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Woodcrafter
14th c. Woodworking

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jboerner
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Member # 996

posted 02-06-2007 11:38 PM

Hi,

Thx, but I meant a different type, which was actually dated to the 14th to 15th century.

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Diu Minnezīt
Reconstruction of textiles, armour and daily life
1250,1350,1475
Nuremberg and Paris
http://www.diu-minnezit.de

IG Meisterhauw
Reconstruction of late medieval and early renaissance fencing techniques
http://www.meisterhauw.de

Nuremberg in the middle ages
http://www.nuernberg-im-mittelalter.de

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Woodcrafter
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Member # 197

posted 02-07-2007 10:04 PM

Ahh the larger and highly decorated ones. I got a cardboard kit of one while I was in York. It was basic. Two end plates held apart by very long 'rivets'. Underneath the rivets was a wrapped plate to make the body that prevented you from accessing the inner workings. The plans were actually 10thc and I used them to make one in brass. The 14thc version welds on fancy scroll work that makes the lock look stronger.
Is that what you mean?
One of those is in the MoL Household book, page 94.

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Woodcrafter
14th c. Woodworking

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jboerner
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Member # 996

posted 02-08-2007 01:26 AM

No, actually these locks are quite plain, iron, more like a lever padlock. The mechanismu is different from the brass barral padlocks. I only have a photo of a rusty find, unfortunatly not the complete specs, I only know that it was part of the york excavations.

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Diu Minnezīt
Reconstruction of textiles, armour and daily life
1250,1350,1475
Nuremberg and Paris
http://www.diu-minnezit.de

IG Meisterhauw
Reconstruction of late medieval and early renaissance fencing techniques
http://www.meisterhauw.de

Nuremberg in the middle ages
http://www.nuernberg-im-mittelalter.de

Registered: Feb 2006 | IP: Logged

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