A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 456
sement, chest, drawer,or the like, usually one of which the essentialjiart is a bolt shot and withili-awn by meansof a removable key. Door locks have usuallya Latch as well as the bolt moved by the key.Locks for safes and strong rooms are sometimesof extraordinary complication, and many… … Living Room in Wealthy Peasants House, France. Permanent or standing. be-d-iilaees ; chUnncy breast and mantel carried on corbels ; a ni.idcrn desif^n. concerned. Locks of this sort sometimes sliootbolts in all four directions, and are frequentlyoperated without keys, thus avoiding the neces-sity…
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