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Padlock and Key in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2010

Padlock and Key in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2010
Padlock and Key
Steel, partly gilt, brass
Andre Omereler
South German, dated 1531

Accession # 57.137.10a-e

This lock is a masterpiece, or test piece, which the maker submitted when applying for membership in a locksmiths' guild. The keyhole was deliberately concealed and can be used only after releasing a movable panel on the back of the lock by means of a hidden mechanism. Various other movable panels, revolving shields, etched with coats of arms, and circular apertures in the lock are meant to confound the effects of a picklock.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.
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