Key Hoard !!!

robfinds · May 28, 2014

You can find some strange things in the woods. I found these keys by the side of a path. They don't look like they had been there for long. They were all together, in the grass. Some of them look fairly old, any key experts out there.

Robert.

Msbeepbeep · May 28, 2014

Looks like someone's collection! Strange!
Good fortune for you tho! Congrats!

robfinds · May 28, 2014

Msbeepbeep said:
Looks like someone's collection! Strange!
Good fortune for you tho! Congrats!

Could be a collection :dontknow:

Silver Searcher · May 28, 2014

robfinds said:
Could be a collection

Yes belonging to a burglar. :laughing9:

SS

robfinds · May 28, 2014

Silver Searcher said:
Yes belonging to a burglar.

SS

Hello Colin, probably :laughing7:

unclemac · May 28, 2014

the larger ones were probably to the door of a house (that is what my house had) and the smaller to various desks....all 100 year range....

BigWaveDave · May 28, 2014

crazy find... good job by you!

robfinds · May 28, 2014

unclemac said:
the larger ones were probably to the door of a house (that is what my house had) and the smaller to various desks....all 100 year range....

Cheers for the info, thought some looked old :thumbsup:

Papalittle · May 28, 2014

Wish I could find keys like that. been hunting for keys that will open a door in my house that has been locked for 30 years or better.

Silver Searcher · May 28, 2014

Papalittle said:
Wish I could find keys like that. been hunting for keys that will open a door in my house that has been locked for 30 years or better.

This key will fit that lock for you. :laughing7:

SS

pkb · May 28, 2014

some look like rail road lock keys

Dug · May 28, 2014

Wouldn't be surprising if they were dumped by a thief who decided they were not worth keeping or too noisy to carry.

I once recovered an embossed zippo lighter and about 80 cents in pennies in a pile under the leaves in the woods. Turned out the landowner had been burglarized about twenty years back and the thief apparently didn't like carrying all the noisy change so they dumped it. Although the lighter was in rough shape from time and elements, the landowner was thrilled to get it back due to some sentimental value and insisted I keep the pennies.

l2hunt · May 29, 2014

One thing for sure, that's a helleva mystery !!

cw0909 · May 29, 2014

Papalittle said:
Wish I could find keys like that. been hunting for keys that will open a door in my house that has been locked for 30 years or better.

go to youtube, search Lever Mortise Lock Picked[h=1][/h]

cw0909 · May 29, 2014

i like the bow on the top 2 keys, on the right, nice find

park pirate · May 29, 2014

Like them old keys..

BugsyDiggs · May 29, 2014

Keys are great. One of my fave things to dig.
Nice hoard

Limitool · May 29, 2014

Any chance you could somehow advertise a large collection of keys found so maybe the owner could be found. I'm assuming a burglar stole them also and dumped them. Maybe they were on a string that rotted away.

But good find guy.... Brad

unclemac · May 29, 2014

it is not all that uncommon to have a large group of keys like that. I do, and I know of several other folk who do as well, especially if you are of a certain age. I doubt a burglar dropped those, I think they were just accumulated... I would venture to guess most of the folk on this site have a lot of modern keys in several drawers around the house that don't open anything anymore or drive anything anymore or that they just plain forgot what they got to....