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Cast Iron Gardeners Keys by Gardman

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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!} In November 2018, Kingston announced that the IronKey had new features and was now FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certified. [13]

We have a few copper-alloy examples recorded on the PAS database, which are probably of similar date; and, exceptionally, one 95% silver example ( HAMP-66BB77). Some are decorated, and where the decoration is diagnostic, it usually suggests a Roman date. Note the Roman-style handles on HAMP-66BB77 and BH-0852F6. Many of the newer cars starting in 2017 do not even require a key to turn on, which some of us who learned to drive on older cars may never quite get used to. (I’m starting to, slowly! lol) 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.Material: Another thing to consider is what the key is made of. Precious metals such as gold and silver are going to fetch far more than a key made of ferrous iron. Brass keys are common, but are also worth slightly more than the ones made out of iron as they will not rust and are more valuable metal at the scrap yard. 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). 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. There is no generally accepted typology for Roman copper-alloy keys or fragments, but there are three distinctive shapes of handle; openwork (normally trilobate) and solid (normally rectangular, with a loop) are the commonest, and there are also a small number of zoomorphic handles. There may be many other less distinctive Roman keys too. Openwork handles, normally three-lobed

Casket keys do not fall into either Winchester or London types. For these, it is useful to use ‘casket’ in the Description field.

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IronKey Workspace MWES USB Flash Drive with Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard (MWES) edition software. But as these small, undiagnostic keys continue to the end of the medieval period, it is impossible to date unstratified, undiagnostic casket keys this early. See below for more on casket keys, which we tend to date to c. 1100-1500 AD. Medieval keys It will be clear from this that any jargon terms such as lift key or rotary key cannot be used without full explanation of what you mean, and are no substitute for a meticulous description.

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