Historian & Anthropologist of security technologies, once great lockpicker, now just a great dad.
Impossible to overstate how much I think about locks...
Schuyler
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-told to take many boxes of VERY old and lovely and rare locks from the last 2 millenia and to "throw these things in a river if you have to, just get rid of them" so her husband brought them home and put them in their attic for 40 years. Thank goodness!
The final 3rd remain lost... for now! (4/4)
And yet, hideously, they simultaneously rob us of interiority.
Isolated but not left alone with our thoughts.
That's a gnarly bitting
- a 2nd part of the collection was acquired by the MSI some years ago, thanks to the wonderful Kathleen McCarthy, who chatted me up at a conference and allowed me to participate in the unboxing and even interview the woman donating.
It
Was
Magical
Apparently her husband and a colleague were-(3/4)
It's tiiiiiiiime!
-was split into 3 parts. One part of the collection wound up at a local history museum in Stamford, CT.
Though the collection is just in archives, the staff were kind enough to let me photograph it for the first time & share them publicly:
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