A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 457
wer,or the like, usually one of which the essentialpart is a bolt shot and withdrawn by meansof a removable key. Door locks iiave usuallya Latch as well as the bolt moved by the key.Locks for safes and strong rooms are sonutinuwof extraordinary comijlication, and many rivalinventions have at… … Living Room in Wealthy Peasants House, France. - standing bed-places ; chimney breast and mantel carried on corbels : a n leslgn. concerned. Locks of this sort sometimes shootbolts in all four directinns, and are frequentlyoperated without keys, thus avoiding the iieees-sity of a keyliole into…
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