175 year old lock with key!! Holy moly!!

[Guest 1551]

I just found this lock today!! I have been wanting to find a lock on my property for a while! Its from a Second Seminole War campsite on my property!! So excited!! I wonder where the chest is... Paymasters box??!!

 

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[JJohnson]

Sweet find!

 

[Guest 1551]

Sweet find!

Thx man! I couldn't believe it!

 

[Guest 1551]

CORRECTION: that is actually not a key its the flip cover that would have protected the keyhole

 

[stillrollin300]

That's a good one, I haven't found one yet. I keep finding the key hole covers. keep em coming.

 

[Guest 1551]

That's a good one, I haven't found one yet. I keep finding the key hole covers. keep em coming.

Haha I'm glad i found the whole lock first then! It would have disappointing to have found a cover and thought it was a key thx man btw!

 

[GatorBoy]

Nice find.
I found a couple brass corners to some sort of wooden box ( strong box) on a SSW fort site but never the lock.
Some time in the future I'd recommend sifting areas that had a concentration of finds that you've cleared of metal objects.
Sites like this usually have alot of kaolin pipes and musket flints.

 

[Guest 1551]

Nice find.
I found a couple brass corners to some sort of wooden box ( strong box) on a SSW fort site but never the lock.

Oh nice!! Paymasters chest?? wouldnt that be fun to find filled with coins

 

[GatorBoy]

Your not kidding!

 

[x512x]

Very awesome

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[Guest 1551]

Your not kidding!

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Haha I am kidding, it'd be fun to find though, you can't deny that

 

[Rusted_Iron]

Great lock, can't wait to see what it looks like cleaned up.

 

[Guest 1551]

Here is the lock post-electro. Check out the nice hole i put in it It didn't clean up as nicely as i'd hoped, but it doesn't have the angry red rust color and shouldn't deteriorate now.

 

[GatorBoy]

It's still nice.
When I clean iron items that are a bit far gone like that.. I soak them in apple cider vinegar.
It will remove all the rust.
Then a quick bath in baking soda and water to neutralize the acid.
You will need to coat that with something to block oxygen to keep it from rusting further.

 

[Guest 1551]

It's still nice.
When I clean iron items that are a bit far gone like that.. I soak them in apple cider vinegar.
It will remove all the rust.
Then a quick bath in baking soda and water to neutralize the acid.
You will need to coat that with something to block oxygen to keep it from rusting further.

I put a type of carwax, recomended for after the electrolysis on it.

 

[Guest 1551]

It did make the lettering on the dustcover legible though

 

[GatorBoy]

It's a real cool find.
Now try to find what it was protecting.. :-)

 

[GatorBoy]

Speaking of electrolysis.
This is the piece I'm working on now.
Way past any apple cider.

 

[Guest 1551]

Speaking of electrolysis.
This is the piece I'm working on now.
Way past any apple cider.

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Dang! What is it? Definitely want pics of whatever it is when its over!

 

[GatorBoy]

It's more than likely an iron ship spike.
I found it near a shipwreck metal detecting the beach.
I've found a few.