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what kind of key is this?

mdlessmdless Posts: 94
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Besides $1.22 in clad and a regular house key, I dug this neat looking item. I think it's an old clock key or something. Any ideas?

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  • SilverDreamsSilverDreams Posts: 427 ✭✭
    It does look to be a clock key.
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  • loditomloditom Posts: 684
    I know what it isimageIt go's to kid's toy handcuff's,I found a couple last year and wasn't sure.But could tell they were made of a cheap metal,then my daughter brought a pair home.That's when I figured it out.HH,Tom
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  • joefrojoefro Posts: 1,872 ✭✭
    loditom's got it! Thats a handcuff key... I keep one on my keychain image
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  • mdlessmdless Posts: 94


    << <i>loditom's got it! Thats a handcuff key... I keep one on my keychain image >>



    Are you guys serious? Whay a bummer! Thought I found something good...image
  • GaCoinGuyGaCoinGuy Posts: 2,764 ✭✭✭✭
    This just has to be done...........





    << <i> I know what it isIt go's to kid's toy handcuff's,I found a couple last year and wasn't sure.But could tell they were made of a cheap metal,then my daughter brought a pair home.That's when I figured it out.HH,Tom >>





    Your daughter plays with handcuffs? imageimageimageimage
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,673 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Clock key, perhaps- but the key that would open the cabinet to a clock, not the key used for winding it. Those have butterfly wings.

    Could also be a furniture key to a desk or bureau drawer. I inherited a Queen Anne style secretary desk from my grandmother that has a similar key to open the drawers.

    It is old- looks Victorian.

    I disagree with the handcuff key theory- though handcuff keys may be similar in size, I doubt they're that ornate?

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  • CoinOnTheCobCoinOnTheCob Posts: 712
    No, it's definitely a handcuff key. I used to keep one on my key ring as well, until it broke off. It is made of cheap pot metal and punkrockers used to all have at least one set of these cheaply made handcuffs. That is definitely the key that goes to those cheap handcuffs.
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  • martmart Posts: 108
    Depending on the length, it looks like a key for a china cabinet/hutch or secretary ! Could also be from a lap desk ! Most of these keys were only 2- 2 1/2 inches in length ! Lap desk keys were frequently worn on a chain or ribbon around the neck by young ladies !! So no one could read the letters only half written !!

    mart
  • goossengoossen Posts: 492 ✭✭
    I agree with lordmarcovan, I have an old closet with a similar key.
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  • mdlessmdless Posts: 94
    My wife has a modern jewlery box that has keys similar to this, however the keys she has were less ornate and also were longer and thinner. I think it maybe to a chest, drawer or jewelery chest. I'm now curious about the age of it. It's a pretty solid piece of metal, so I don't think it's from handcuffs.....
  • gene2393gene2393 Posts: 769 ✭✭✭
    it looks like a skeleton key most likely to an old box or cabinet of somesort considering it has a hollow point compared to an old door key wich is not a hollow point.

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