Click-clack-boom ... The key moved my hands. It was, he has two months. Find a locksmith moving was difficult. Mr U ***, retired professional Tarascon is past but this brave man, a legendary honesty, could never open the door using a method authorized by law ... I would have asked anyone How young of a city Marseillaise, I would have done it in less than two minutes ;-)). It is under the friendly pressure of a crowbar that opened the door, move all the easier as the door was not particularly fit!
That's when I discovered, after dismantling the old-style lock that closed the entrance was a cylinder lock . It is a tubular lock. Its principle was discovered by the Egyptians, the first to design a lock that opened with the aid of pins wood should be raised to a height well defined so that the lock opens. This lock was invented by Joseph Bramah in 1784. This is a lock where the notches (in fact it's fins) are located anywhere around the barrel, and at any depth. That's why it's called "security lock ", although it can be enforced with a tool called "umbrella . But that day, it was not raining ...
course I replaced all with a more powerful but this little misfortune has been, for me, the opportunity to look in my treasure if I had not a book that would please a locksmith bibliophile ... It's a niche that Do not underestimate ;-))
A little history:
Once they began to settle and build houses, men sought to protect their property and to guard against nocturnal intruders. The first invention was the sense from the lock. It is simply a piece of wood inserted in the fixed part of the door frame, wall mounted. However, this lock could be locked from inside. The man then invented a system to open and close the bolt with an iron rod inserted into a hole: The first key was born. The corporation locksmiths likely outcome is that of blacksmiths marshals like carpenters was born from that of carpenters. As far as we go back in the testimony of our contemporaries, in our countryside, the village blacksmith is both a blacksmith and locksmith.
The feast day of the locksmith also varies according to regions and places. Sometimes, it's St. Pierre, as in Paris and major cities elsewhere is the St. Eloi, party marshals. One detail that will amuse and enlighten a tradition that continues today: The marshals were deemed readily sorcerers, healers, at least, and there is not so long ago that the locksmiths healed! The rheumatic processed using steel rings or half-ring were made up by the smiths ...
The book that I offer them for sale today is a decorative metalwork album large format published in the early twentieth century. You'll like me conquered by the fact that many models are reproductions of old pieces of metalwork, and many of these pieces benefit from the research of modern decorative art. A bibliophile's book? Pierre
FONTAINE and ICE. Album of decorative metalwork. Paris, Fontaine and Co. no date (early twentieth century). Format in-4 (340x270mm). Bound in half blue cloth, and tobacco as part of gilt letters. 54 pages of text and 530 pages of plates on glossy paper. The layout of the text is an exercise in imitation of eighteenth century style (font, jewels ...) recalling the foundation of this house in 1740. It tells a brief history of the company and there is a typology of locks. The pages of plates in black have thousands of models of Cremona, locks, knockers, hammers, reproduction medieval empire and modern locks chests, frames, key rings, plates, espagnolettes, sliders and buttons, squares ... Each item is presented with particular reference dimensions. The internal condition is perfect, except for some tiny tasks. The binding of this minor defects. This catalog is a real working tool. € 170 + shipping
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