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Curator:
Brian Morland
curator@morlands.demon.co.uk

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We are pleased to announce the publication of the second title in our series on English locks and lockmakers:-

George Price
Victorian Champion of the Security Trade

by Pat Tempest

George Price by Pat Tempest

The Author, Pat Tempest is the Great, Grand daughter of George Price and
Pat Tempestbrings her own insights and style to the subject. The book is well illustrated with contempory illustrations and colour pictures.

£15 plus P&P
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The first tile in our series:-

A C Hobbs a man of genius by Mike Fincher

122 printed pages. 30 x 21.5cm
77 illustrations, 49 in colour. Wire bound between LeatherGrain effect boards.

£15 + P&P
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Theme Collections

Keys Padlocks Safe Nameplates


English Patent and Proprietary Locks

Aubin
Barron Bramah
Chatwood Chubb Cotterill
Davis
Gibbons
Hobbs
Enoch Jones
Lumby
Marr Milner
George Price
Ratner
Tann
Tucker & Reeves T.Turner
Wright & Groom


Patent and Proprietary Locks from Around the World

Austria

Friedr Wiese


Germany

Boda Panzer


Holland

Lips


USA

Yale



Ancient / Pre-Industrial Revolution Locks and Keys

Roman Medieval 16th/17th Century 17th/18th Century 18th/19th Century


A C Hobbs.
A C Hobbs
1812 - 1891
sparked a flurry of ingenious lock improvements in the middle of the 19th century.


Linus Yale jr.
Linus Yale jr.
1821-1868
Prolific inventor of Bank Locks.


Thomas Milner
Thomas Milner
1777-1849
Pioneer and patentee of fire-resisting qualities in safes.


Theador Kromer
Theodor Kromer
1839 - 1928
Invented, developed and patented the double bitted key.


Linus Yale Sr.
Linus Yale Sr.
1797 - 1857
Developed and miniaturised the ancient wooden Egyptian peglock into the now familiar "Yale" lock.


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