U.S. POSTAL LOCK ?

[Whydah]

Went for another hunt with my new found friend and we seem to be doing jsut fine finding the OLD stuff. Can anyone possatively I D this one for me... Possably a date ? It was found in the water and about a foot and a half deep in the sand. The spring door for the lock works perfect. The chain has long since rotted away from the salt. Any help would be great... Whydah

[leprechaun]

Don't know much about locks but looks to be from 1800,s U.S. maybe civil war era, super find.

[Frankn]

I don't know much about locks, but it could be an army lock as stated above. I found one and never could identify it, so I just mounted it. Frank

[Catobra]

Clueless as to age etc., but very cool find.

[creskol]

I took the liberty of posting your lock on a lock collector's forum that I subscribe to and received the following reply:

"Your padlock appears to be a Wilson Bohannon US Lock made under an 1873 patent. It is pictured in an article by Robert Dix entitled "US Armed Forces Locks" in the Jan.-Mar. 2012 issue of Journal of Lock Collecting."