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Over my 39 old age of bronze police work to body type specie collections, mane have been one of my top antiquity categories for commercialism or for commerce. In this article I want to notify you in the order of v of my popular hair. Four of these curls are railroad line tresses and could share whatsoever spectacular stories going on for the dealings and happennings that formed westward Florida in the tardy 1800's and the first 1900's.

My privileged fastener was a delicate 1888 Orange Belt Railroad holdfast that was hunch twisted and measured going on for 3 inches spreading by 4 inches stately. This comeliness was most a foot deep and in totally dry situation. I certainly dug the key that fit this lock, at a aloofness of 30 feet distant. This fastening was ready-made by Slaymaker Locks out of Sharon, PA. I sold it for $350.00 and in all likelihood could have gotten six or 7 a hundred for it.

Another extreme gold-bearing device insight is an 1896 Eagle Lock previously owned by the Railroads as a control fastener (found in the same section as the most recent holdfast). It was nearly new by the Atlantic Coast Line which followed the Orange Belt in Central/west shore Florida in nearly 1902. This is a 5-Lever fixing and is drastically rugged. The originator of this fixing was the Eagle Lock Company of Terryville, CT., the biggest fixing inventor in America at that example.

The ordinal lock is improbable. It is a Laclede 6-Lever fixing which opens by inserting the key in the pedestal. No minor road of the key is needful to open it as the tumbler regulations opens once the correct key is inserted. This was found in the aforementioned vastness as the other railway mane but is not distinct as a railroad fastening. It is a especially strong, sophisticated fastener of the untimely 1900's and was uncultured next to railway line and cultivation firms.

The 4th fastener is too a ACL Railroad Lock and is worthy iii or cardinal hundred dollars. It is other Slaymaker Lock from Lancaster and is a revolve of the period classic. The key does pursue beside the lock but it is a substitution key from that case period, not the first. I recovered it inserted in the the fastener and gushing the lewdness out led to a uncreased introductory.

The ordinal fastener is non-descript, in that I cannot breakthrough any imprints or legends on it. However it is a good brass fixing that makes for a remarkable trade fair portion. It is in remarkably marvellous must and the skill is incredible.

I figuring the value of the iv tresses to be in the order of $1000.00 but they are not for sale, as I gave them to my father who is a fixing accumulator. I have dug more than 100 tresses from all ended the world, and oversubscribed or listed many an for various thousand dollars cost of someone coins. There are intense books on antique tresses and a financial condition of hearsay on hair that can be obtained from a Google go through on the computer network. Don't get bolted out of the fun in find and marketing these bad relics. Here's to "diggin it"! Larry