Padlock still locked onto an iron hasp...

[Hunt Diggerson]

Found this in a park where I have dug relics in Historical Fairfax. It intrigued me because the padlock is Chicago Lock Co. style, and they have been around since 1920, but the hasp/mechanism it is still locked onto seems way older. It is crude iron and I cant figure out how it works. Most things you put a padlock on have a top and bottom, you close and secure the two, but this thing seems to have a top hook that somehow is able to be manipulated when unlocked; pushed through a slot. Plus the connecting bolt still remaining (as you can see) is really long.

What do u guys make of it?

 

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[Tony in SC]

Unusual find! When I was kid our neighbor, an old farmer, had a tool room inside his barn. He used it so much that just left it open ad kept the lock in the hasp??

 

[Mud Hut]

The piece the lock is on is just the keeper of the hasp. The actual hasp would have looped over that piece and then locked. We use to put locks on the keepers, too, to keep them from getting lost.

 

[crashbandicoot]

Not uncommon,but a great find just the same.Kind of a reminder of old days when we did things differently.

 

[Hunt Diggerson]

Oh, that explains it. The lock was locked onto the keeper. It did seem like the padlock was much newer then the thing it was attached to. What do you think that was used to lock?
When I find stuff like that, I find myself wanting it to be something with a cool story, not mundane.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Oh, that explains it. The lock was locked onto the keeper. It did seem like the padlock was much newer then the thing it was attached to. What do you think that was used to lock?
When I find stuff like that, I find myself wanting it to be something with a cool story, not mundane.

It may have been used to lock any number of things... a tool box, a garden shed door or possibly a wooden fence gate.
Based on the type of script cast into the lock, I'm thinking it dates to the 1930s - 40s.
Dave

 

[crashbandicoot]

Or it could have been on a treasure chest!Perhaps the door to a civil war armory,possibilities are endless,it,s your imagination,let it be whatever you want.

 

[Hunt Diggerson]

Yes! Exactly. It's not a garden shed, it's a treasure chest. And someone found it, and had to rip the whole hasp off to get to it.
Yah...thats the ticket.