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Description: | The original typed label for this key reads: - "English late 16th or 17th century key. Found at the Black Boy Hotel, Long Row East, Nottingham.", Large door key, 18th century.
This key has a flattened mushroom-shaped bow, with a swelling opposite the shank.There is what looks like a hammered welded repair to one end of the bow. The hollow shank itself is 12.1mm wide at the ferrule, and gradually sweeps out to19.8mm wide at the bit end. There is some decorative banding on the shanks although there is no collar or throating. The pin is pipe ended. It has a nose and a separate bit, symmetrical about their middle, with one cleft on each part, and a cruciform shape in the middle. The wards are 43.1mm long, and each is 13.7 wide. The last 14.3 mm of the bit is missing., "Given to me Mr R.W. Cooper (Archt.) Talbot Street Nottingham"
Accession number: NCM 1947-557 | Subjects: | security furniture? doors and windows? | Temporal: | 1700-1799 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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