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Published: 2018-05-28 06:43:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 610; Favourites: 34; Downloads: 5
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Greetings!Today I have a working medieval padlock freshly made for you, with a forged all steel construction. It is 8 cm long, 4.5 cm wide and 1.5 cm thick.
A small video demonstrating its operation:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=syfqS7…
It is 150 euro.
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Wow...I had no idea the idea of a padlock went THAT far back. I learned something new today!!
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Yeah, people always liked their shiny stuffed secured. 
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True...that said I imagined the means of doing so to be much more primitive until the Renaissance. Bear in mind that in the US we don’t have examples of much that’s older than the Enlightenment and a lot of what we see that’s medieval is in movies or fantasy rather than anything we can actually see up close.
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Yeah, you're right. The US is a relatively young country, so the remains of the past aren't around you as much as it is on the old continent. I tend to forget this, sorry.
If you are interested, google the viking padlock, its design is rather intriguing!
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No worries, I wasn't insulted or anything. Just explaining why I don't always know things that might seem like common knowledge in other parts of the world. As the saying goes, Americans think 100 years is a long time, and Europeans think 100 miles (161 km) is a long way! (I just drove 200 miles today, and to me that is not a long trip!)
And yeah...I just looked up the history of keys. Good grief, I thought they were invented during the Enlightenment. BIG oops. O_O
www.historicallocks.com/en/sit… <--Yeah, I just found out better.
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Hehe, yeah, 100 miles sure is a long trip around here
My parents live 400 km away and it takes me a whole day to get there.
Perspective is everything!
Yup, since property was invented, people tried to make it secure, so the awake of keys, locks and padlocks was unavoidable. Sure, they were different at the beginnings, but their role was the same.
I believe before the iron and bronze locks there must have been wooden ones too. They perished of curse, but it would make sense. Wood is easier to work with and readily available.
My grandpa' had a wooden locking mechanism on its stable door, in my childhood so I don't see why ancient people thousands of years ago couldn't make one for them selves. It must have been!
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It's funny...I see 400 km trip, and I think, "Oh, that's only a 4-5 hour trip. Not that bad!" Of course, consider that my grandpa lives roughly 1400 km away, which is a trip best made in two days.
I always figured wooden security devices had been around longer, but I did not realize how early they were supplanted by the metal variety. It's always fun to learn something!
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It sure is! Learning is fun, you are more with every bit you learn
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thanks 
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