Cast Iron Gardeners Keys by Gardman

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In the 1970’s, suitcases began to shift in style and design, and today many people use simply bags or rolling cases. While a suitcase key you find may be over 50 years old, these keys aren’t much different in style or shape than ones you can buy today. 6. Stringed Instrument Case Keys

Many of these solid rectangular handles, like the openwork handles, will have had iron stems and bits. These occasionally survive (as on LANCUM-6B5B80) but it is more common to find the copper-alloy handle on its own. We’ve used keys for all sorts of things – to protect our homes, protect our valuables, or even to protect our deepest inner thoughts scrawled in an old diary. Used in The Enchanted Key miniquest to find a number of buried chests with a hot/cold style game. These chests give a number of items as well as the Mjolnirs. Bows with a pair of internal projections are confined to the post-medieval period. Later post-medieval keys often had the bow shaped internally to a slight figure-of-eight form, as if they were intended for use with two fingers.Ward Perkins believed that type VI dated to the 14th and 15th centuries ( 1940, 140), but reliable dating evidence is scarce. A fragment from London, missing its bow, was found in a context of c. 1270-1350 (Egan 1998, no. 313).

These keys are what most people visualize and think of when we talk about old antique keys. Some people call them skeleton keys, but they are not always true skeleton master keys that can open every door in a building. {More on that in a bit!} One thing that makes car keys collectible is there are many people who collect different types of car memorabilia. People tend to be very loyal to their favorite kinds of cars, whether they are a “Ford Person” or a “Chevy Person”. It is given to players by the Guildmaster of the Champions' Guild during the Dragon Slayer I quest. (Should players lose it before completing the quest, they may return to the Guildmaster to claim another.) Left: five T-shaped keys, all except one of copper alloy. Left, top to bottom: NCL-29FAA7, HAMP-66BB77 (silver), LIN-8AF3B7. Centre, top to bottom: YORYM-84E0BD and BH-0852F6. Right: three copper-alloy L-shaped keys. Above: NCL-DEC6A2 and KENT-94C5F1. Below: LEIC-5D3322. Solid key handles are occasionally made in the shape of animals, usually showing the head, forelegs or more of a crouching lion. The most elaborate example on the PAS database is SWYOR-F1D5D6, asymmetrically modelled with prey (a ram’s head) in the lion’s mouth. A more representative group is shown below, with the most complete example ( NLM-1E9032) retaining its iron stem and bit. Zoomorphic key handles, in the shape of crouching lions. Left to right: NLM-1E9032, BH-E96707, SF-6038E8.Those with openwork bows often also have suspension loops, normally short and tubular; these may have been used with rings, chains or swivels but, if so, none survive in place. One key, WMID-25B5B4, has a leather thong surviving, but it is wrapped around the bow and does not actually use the ‘suspension’ loop. Keys of London type VI with openwork bows and tubular suspension loops. Left, WMID-D7BDAC (above) and WAW-7347C6 (below). Centre, NMS-45AE81 (above) and WMID-643E11 (below). Right, WMID-7CE0D1 (above) and WMID-25B5B4 (with leather thong, below). The other types are very rare; type 5c has a double-sided bit, type 5d appears to be a cruder version of type 5a, and type 5e has a decorative projection which does not appear to have worked as a functional key. Exactly how deeply the stem needs to be split to qualify it as a type 5, rather than just a key with a solid stem (as below), is not yet defined. As there are so few of this type, it’s best to add ‘Winchester type 5’ to the classification field even if the identification is a bit uncertain. This tripartite division does not work particularly well for some Roman keys, especially those with a suspension loop, solid rectangular element, stem and bit; it can be very hard to work out whether the solid rectangular element is part of the handle, or part of the stem. For Roman keys, it is therefore perfectly acceptable to use the term ‘handle’ instead of bow. Parts of a Roman key with solid rectangular handle ( WAW-9D3A02) Ring-keys were classified by Guiraud (1989, 191-3) as her finger-ring type 5. Guiraud divided them into five sub-types on the basis of the bit, but only Guiraud types 5a and 5b are at all common. Type 5a usually has a hollow stem and a bit with a slot immediately below the stem, but can come in simpler versions as well (e.g. WILT-C592D7, shown below). Type 5b has a very short stem and a square or rounded bit with openwork centre. Roman ring-keys. Left, three keys of Guiraud type 5a (left above, WILT-C592D7; left below, LIN-CA7623 (with decorated ring); right, DOR-8FF913). Right, three keys of Guiraud type 5b (left, BM-B35729; centre, SUR-452144; right, BM-DE9D93).

For key-like items which turn to open and close a tap, use TAP. PAS classifications and sub-classifications to be usedRoman slide keys have ‘teeth’ on their bits ( WAW-9D3A02 illustrated above has six teeth) whereas the word ‘ward’ seems to be more commonly used for other keys. Crummy (1983, 84) suggests that type 5b (with ‘flat wards’) may be early Roman, whereas type 5a may be 3rd or 4th century in date. The keys you may find of this variety very well could have once belonged to an old antique steamer trunk. Once the railroads in the U.S. were built, it was very common for people to travel by rail to visit family and friends. 5. Vintage & Antique Suitcase Keys