Hoping someone can help me identify the hallmark on this 1863 hand made slave lock

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ricko

Nice old lock... I see the letters ER.....Cannot help further than that. Cheers, RickO

asheland

Interesting!

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The tag is commonly associated with helping non-English speaking immigrants trunks getting to their destination by railroad. We have seen many old printed forms where 5-7-04-500 would mean an order of 500 was printed May 7, 1904.

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Frankcoins just put me one step closer.