Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 20 Feb 2024
A collection of padlocks
A collection of padlocks
mainly iron, including three Indian, with screw keys, another Indian, with three keys, two barrel type, each with a key, a heavy iron and brass padlock with a key, and African example with a complex key, a Chinese brass example with a key, a Tuareg copper, brass and iron example with two keys and a lever, and a Lowe and Fletcher brass padlock, stamped Lowe & Fletcher Ltd, Willenhall, 1937 and numbered A323, with a key, contained in an Indian wood bowl. (26)
Provenance
Romy Rey Collection, London.