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🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Hello all! Please look at this skeleton key I found.

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Hello all and thank you for allowing me to join. I am new at metal detecting and among other things, found this odd skeleton key. It seems to have intricate detailing on parts. If someone could take a look and let me know more about it I would appreciate it. Found on my property in South Central VA. Non-magnetic.
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You've got a nice straight key there. I think it´s oxidation that I see on it.
 
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Welcome from Central Va, Nice recovery on the key
 
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One time me and some friends rented an old mansion with a tower. The door to the tower was locked but we looked through the keyhole and could see the inside of the little tower room. We searched all through the house for the key and eventually I found a rusty old skeleton key in a drawer in one of the bedrooms. I took the key and put it in the lock and turned. The lock clicked opened. It was so satisfying to feel that lock open and hear that click. I had never before used a skeleton key. The door then swung open and we entered the tower room. It was a tiny old dusty room with a small stained glass window and conical ceiling, round and almost closet like in size. Plaster was peeling from the walls and the ceiling clearly had been compromised by water intrusion at some point. Old papers and trunks piled high around the round walls, their contents a mystery. Locked the door and put the skeleton key back into its hiding place where I'm certain it still rests to this day.
 
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Nice Old Skelligen Key :coffee2:

I do agree with the Others The Markings are normal .
Definitely a Keeper
 
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There are a lot of keys for locks that are common to a lot of locks ! I was given a old display case that didn't have the key and they were going to put it into the trash because of it ! they said I could have it if I haul it away ,in which I did promptly!!! and low and behold ,I had a fist of skeleton keys and 2 of them fit! :icon_thumleft: :occasion14:
 
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