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I've seen a couple over the years, but never with a key. I wonder if a good locksmith could get one working?
DLH
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I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV |
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10-21-2009, 05:57 PM
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A Winchester box with a Parker lock sounds like the best of both worlds. Nice box
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10-21-2009, 07:19 PM
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Thanks Guys... Hopefully some more Googling and eBay searching will turn one up. I just occurred to me that Vol 2 of TPS has a section on Parker Hardware I'll take a look at that too.
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10-21-2009, 07:38 PM
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I have not seen any evidence of a Parker lock, but I have seen Parker items that are not in the hardware catalogs, so, who knows.
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10-21-2009, 10:26 PM
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An acquaintance of mine has one of the largest collections of padlocks in the country. I"ll ask him as he has many rare and some unique padlocks,some of which he keeps in a bank vault.I have never heard of a Parker padlock in 40 years of collecting odd locks. They must be pretty rare if they exist. Keys can be made for most locks,altho' it can get expensive.
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10-21-2009, 10:46 PM
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This lock thread has me surfing the net and I didn't find any lock information but I did find something of interest. Look at all the functions old Charlie was doing....
GUNS AND HARDWARE.--CHARLES PARKER. charles parker commenced the manufacture of coffee-mills in 1832, in a factory 25 feet by 40, two stories high, with horse power. He now occupies sixteen different buildings, with dimensions as follows: No. 1, office and plating room, 18 feet by 45. No. 2, coffee-mill and burnishing shop with additions, 20 by 26, used as a store and varnish room; also addition for a coffee-mill shop, 15 by 25. No. 3, spectacle shop, 20 by 108. No. 4, tobacco-box shop and friction rollers. No. 5, coffee-mill shop, etc., 25 by 30, with addition, used as a store and varnish room. No. 6, vise shop, 25 by 160. No. 7, engine and boiler-room, 29 by 48. No. 8, finishing shop, 24 by 100. No. 9, store-house, 60 by 100. No. 10, screw shop, 30 by 200. No 11, foundry, 66 by 360, with additions. No. 12, blacksmith-shop, 16 by 20. No. 13, coal house, 20 by 20. No. 14, annealing shop, 20 by 20. No 15, coffee-mill shop, 30 by 45, with additions, 28 by 25, for oiling shop; also a japanning room, 10 by 15. No. 16, packing-room and carpenter-shop, 30 by 30. These buildings have been built from time to time as the busi*ness increased and demanded more room. The motive power is furnished by an 80 horse-power Corliss engine. Mr. Parker has, in connection with business here four other concerns controlled by him; one located two miles east of the city, one two miles west, one two miles south, and another half a mile west, where there are made iron spoons, ladles and forks, scales and hinges, machinery and guns, britannia spoons, and German silver spoons and forks; employing at these four concerns at different localities about three hundred persons, besides two hundred which are occupied in manufacturing coffee-mills, screws, spectacles, eye-glasses, tobacco-boxes, vises, butts, lanterns, match-safes, faucets, iron bench-screws, scis*sors and shears, cranks and rollers, barn-door hangers and rollers, gate and plain hinges, gridirons, bed-keys, wagon-jacks, scrapers, pulleys, lamp-hooks, window-springs, thumb-latches, hammers, gimlets, call and hand-bells, &c. Probably there is no manufactory in the country that manufactures such a variety of goods as Mr. Parker. Among other inventions and improvements introduced to the public by Mr. Parker, is a breech-loading, double barreled shot-gun, which is the result of over two years of the most thorough experiments, and is claimed to be the best gun in use in this or any other country. The barrels are self-locked. The advantages claimed for his cartridge are, that it is a central-fire, coned, metallic cartridge, and is capped with the ordinary percussion caps. The weight of the gun is from 7 1-4 to 7 3-4 lbs. In connection is the United States Screw Company, incorporated in 1863, owned by Mr. Parker. The machinery for this branch of his business is all new and of the most approved kind. |
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10-21-2009, 10:50 PM
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Guys..Check out TPS Volume 2 pages 889-892
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Yep there it is... Not the most attractive lock ever but it would be great to find one. Plus, the key style might help if you needed to have a key made.
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