✅ SOLVED Mystery Bank Items

[MissKayla]

Hello,

This is my very first post. I was so happy to stumble across this forum. It's full of people smarter than I who might help me figure out what these objects are!

I work at a bank in a very old building, over 100 years old, and we find odd things all the time. But this one really stumped us!
We have 5 metal objects, all about the same shape but with slight differences on the jagged bottoms.

They each have a number etched in the front, we have 1, 2, and upside down 3, 4, and 7.
They are about one inch long and about .5 inch wide, with a prong.
Maybe 1mm thick, made of a bronzy metal.

Does anyone recognize these? My coworkers have guessed everything from pieces of a lock, to vacuum parts. haha

Thanks in advance!

MissKayla

 

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[Mackaydon]

I can't ID your find but I can welcome you to treasurenet !!
Don...

 

[xr7ator]

I think they are a part of a switch and these are worn out or damaged parts that have been discarded. The little arm reminds me of a turn signal switch inside a steering column (just under the steering wheel) on a motor vehicle.
Could very well be the counting part of a coin counting machine.

 

[DCMatt]

Some kind of lock tumblers. Maybe for the cash drawers...?

 

[DCMatt]

I guess they are called levers, not tumblers. These are a little closer - from a vintage mortise lock.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

Matt's got it, specifically these are levers from a safe lock

Ratner

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

I guess they are called levers, not tumblers. These are a little closer - from a vintage mortise lock.

"Matt, Matt, he's our man, if he can't solve it nobody can!"

Welcome to Tnet from Toronto MissKayla!

 

[cudamark]

Yup, they probably lost the key at one time and had to drill out the lock.

 

[ArfieBoy]

Cool finds! Welcome to the forum from Oregon.

 

[MissKayla]

Thank you so much for all the help! I didnt expect the answer so quickly.