{"id":2096,"date":"2012-06-30T14:32:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T12:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2012-07-09T00:40:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T22:40:11","slug":"picking-17th-century-cultural-heritage-locks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/?p=2096","title":{"rendered":"Picking 17th century cultural heritage locks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the key to something you do not use every day is lost, it can take a little while before <a href=\"http:\/\/intact-noodopening.nl\/Welkom.html\">a locksmith<\/a> is called. In this case it took them a couple of hundred years to find us! <\/p>\n<p>But that is ok. I like mysteries, especially if I can help solving them. Last week was good for mystery solving and there still are <a href=\"http:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fichet-combo-wm.jpg\">some<\/a> to be solved (edited 8-july: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barrywels\/status\/222089533871763457\/photo\/1\">solved!<\/a>) . <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Weq4unuE88E?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We were invited into some sort of museum where they had four 17th century treasure-boxes without key. They did send <a href=\"http:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/17th-century-deposit-safe.jpg\">some images<\/a> that allowed me to do some <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barrywels\/statuses\/215815474599043072\">Research<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barrywels\">barrywels<\/a> on twitter). <\/p>\n<p>When we arrived we inspected the boxes and padlocks with endocsopes and decided they could probably be <a href=\"http:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/lever-lock_picked.jpg\">picked<\/a> with simple steel wire bent <a href=\"http:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hooks.jpg\">in an L shape<\/a>. Click on the image below to see how a similar mechanism is opened using two hooks. One hook lifts the hammer while the other moves the bolt. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/lever-picking1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/lever-picking-700.jpg\" alt=\"lever picking\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a little while we did mange to open a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/schatkist-17-eeuw.jpg\">padlocks<\/a> and one of the boxes. <\/p>\n<p>Currently <a href=\"http:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/17-th-centurty-treasure-box.jpg\">three 17th century treasure boxes<\/a> are waiting to be opened and at least one of them contains a number of &#8216;heavy objects&#8217;. This is interesting, especially if you consider the boxes were used to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spanish_treasure_fleet\">transport valuables<\/a> in ships.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rq3FG9TZqRo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jord was asked to make a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duke.edu\/web\/isis\/gessler\/collections\/key.jpg\">key<\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duke.edu\/web\/isis\/gessler\/collections\/key-ward.jpg\">lock(s)<\/a> and that is quite a task with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duke.edu\/web\/isis\/gessler\/collections\/key-ward-closeup.jpg\">special warding<\/a>. Hopefully I can make a blackbag posting out of that too as it is an interesting process to create such a key. (more nice keys on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duke.edu\/web\/isis\/gessler\/collections\/locks-keys.htm\">http:\/\/www.duke.edu\/web\/isis\/gessler\/collections\/locks-keys.htm<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p>The exact location of the remaining boxes has to be kept secret for now not to give anyone any ideas. There will be a follow up soon (after <a href=\"http:\/\/toool.us\/lockcon\/\">LockCon.US<\/a>) and hopefully we can solve some more mysteries then. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picking open &#8216;one out of four&#8217; 17th century treasure boxes in some sort of museum. Pretty special if you consider nobody alive knows what is inside! The remaining three boxes will be opened when we return from LockCon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}