Rail Road Lock! 1878 ! Old Danville Va. Line.

[JccEldreth]

She was 10 inches under a row of cedar tree and a pile of roots.
Prettiest green think I have seen!
Any extra information would be appreciated.

 

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[Stef45]

Wow that is one of the nicest locks I've seen on here. Perfect green patina on it too. No help on the date but congrats!

 

[DeepseekerADS]

That is a forever keeper! Congratulations on the lock find.

I'd say it is brass? That little rusty cow tail on the bottom might clean up with electrolysis - something I have to try for the first time myself. Retirement makes me lazy too often....

 

[bill_wabo]

Seems many railroad padlocks were heart shaped in those days, very nice old find!

 

[ironhorse]

Sweet old lock!
I like railroad stuff like that


the iron link suffered most of all, it will probably just crumble to bits in time if you let it

 

[against the wind]

Man, it was well worth digging that bad boy out,,
Congratulations

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on the old lock

 

[JccEldreth]

http://www.antique-padlocks.com/graphics/ap_picture_wm_05.gif
They were making them in 1890. 87 is the model number.
W. Bohannan Brooklyn, NY. Patterned June 25, 1878. Score.

Sorry, web site is blocked...

 

[Kurios1]

Sweet green patina man. Love old brass locks. I think I have only recovered one myself. I love hunting under cedar trees. I have done very well around cedar for some reason. Excellent recovery mate. Peace.

 

[boogeyman]

Beat me to it! Nice find!!! If you're going to do a restoration on it, try coating the area around the pin with the liquid electric tape or better plasti-dip. Use a thick coat, and wrap the rest of the lock in blue masking tape with a couple layers of electrical tape over that. Real tiny puffs (low pressure) with a sandblaster using ground walnut shell. I think if you use electrolysis you'll end up blowing the pin out. Go slow! You've got a great lock that'll restore very nicely. I can show you several brass locks the I blew it on using electrolysis, and ended up having to over clean them to even them out. Another thing this helps with is it won't loosen or eat up the pin for the key! Best way I've found. If you need to touch the brass up you can use liver of sulphur to even out boo boos. hope this gives you some good ideas!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Great piece of Railroad memorabilia. Congrats.

 

[Stretch Da Truth]

Congrats! Thats a pretty sweet lock.

 

[deershed]

Sweet RR lock!!
I found a railroad lock for a local railroad here and talk about blowing your ears out.
Congrats!!

 

[boogeyman]

http://www.antique-padlocks.com/graphics/ap_picture_wm_05.gif
They were making them in 1890. 87 is the model number.
W. Bohannan Brooklyn, NY. Patterned June 25, 1878. Score.

Sorry, web site is blocked...

Try www.antique-padlocks.com works fine. nice site! Beats thumbing through Padlock Collector looking!! Looks like it's locked & not updated, but lots of good info Thanks!!

 

[Davers]

That's a Nice one indeed.
Of the 3 locks of that type that I have dug all were /are Iron; Including the one I found yesterday.
Ill take'em Brass or Iron tho.
Davers

 

[Davers]

Try www.antique-padlocks.com works fine. nice site! Beats thumbing through Padlock Collector looking!! Looks like it's locked & not updated, but lots of good info Thanks!!

The 'Padlock' site will not come up for me either , just a "site name" background.

 

[Relicific]

Beautiful lock
Congratulations

 

[boogeyman]

The 'Padlock' site will not come up for me either , just a "site name" background.

Do a cut & paste of the link, delete everything after .com and it'll come up. the rest after .com is for a page that is no longer there. Works fine that way! Been on there three times looking for locks that aren't in my books. Check out their links if you restore or like to impression keys for your locks. Found a jig there that beats my nails in a board jig!

Thanks again for the link OP!!!!

 

[JccEldreth]

Do a cut & paste of the link, delete everything after .com and it'll come up. the rest after .com is for a page that is no longer there. Works fine that way! Been on there three times looking for locks that aren't in my books. Check out their links if you restore or like to impression keys for your locks. Found a jig there that beats my nails in a board jig!

Thanks again for the link OP!!!!

Boogeyman, it brothers me that the key hole on my lock does not match the key hole in the catalogue or sites.
Can you I lighten me? Maybe a latter model of the 87? I know there is 3 versions of it, but I don't see any with the Crocked key hole. Thanks.