The Illustrated exhibitor and magazine of art : collected from the various departments of painting, sculpture, architecture, history, biography, art-industry, manufactures, inventions and discoveries, local and domestic scenes, ornamental works, etc., etc (1852)

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An illustration from The Illustrated exhibitor and magazine of art : collected from the various departments of painting, sculpture, architecture, history, biography, art-industry, manufactures, inventions and discoveries, local and domestic scenes, ornamental works, etc., etc, 1852, leaf 489 — rly, so soon were the rights of meum and tuum recog- tent. The key d is a straight piece of wood having at one end nised, and so soon did locks and keys become necessary. Of their three pegs (e b e) corresponding in position with the moveable pins or tumblers in the lock. This key is inserted… … that certain crooked keys, having ivory or wooden han- ANCIENT EGYPTIAN LOCK. dles, were used in bolting or unbolting the locks of the ancients. These primitive kind of locks were probably nothing key corresponding with the vertical holes in the bolt c, into which more than mere bolts, or simple…

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