my mom's place has those "deck of cards" lock box inserts




On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Lee A. Stone wrote:

>
> some of you in your travels must have seen old locks  like  in one of my
> first houses  the locks were  I think like a 4 inch or maybe 3 inch
> square block. and If I remember correctly there was a little   piece of
> metal stuck up so you could flip it from lock to unlock and that
> actualy  took a skeleton key. then there were the door locks per se
> which was simply a flat piece of metal that  lay in a grove until the
> outer handle was turned.. the later one was on my first house which had
> double doors and at the bottom of one door was   a place where you
> fliped up a metal  piece thus allowing two or both doors to swing wide
> open.  and that door had the old fashioned hand crank or turn knob on
> the outside  which when turned would knock anyone out of bed. Lee
>
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