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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 1118975, member: 5833"]Welcome lorijo. This is not my area of expertise at all, but I love trying to chip away at mechanical mysteries. So, it is really 2 keys, one for a much more elaborate, maybe exterior lock & another for something simpler, like an indoor skeleton key? The disk with the letters slides from one end to the other? If I'm wrong, please explain any moving parts & how they move. The only thing I can say about the letters is that the F on its own line could be either for the Latin <i>fecit</i>, made it, or for <i>fils</i>, son in French. Or something else altogether.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 1118975, member: 5833"]Welcome lorijo. This is not my area of expertise at all, but I love trying to chip away at mechanical mysteries. So, it is really 2 keys, one for a much more elaborate, maybe exterior lock & another for something simpler, like an indoor skeleton key? The disk with the letters slides from one end to the other? If I'm wrong, please explain any moving parts & how they move. The only thing I can say about the letters is that the F on its own line could be either for the Latin [I]fecit[/I], made it, or for [I]fils[/I], son in French. Or something else altogether.[/QUOTE]
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