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Allen key set

2000-2002

Commemorative key, Railwaymen's Club and Institute

1928

Six-terminal reversing key

Morse key

Rymer-Jones Key

Morse key

1938

365A operating key no. 1738

Telegraph key type 365

Morse key

Du Bois-Reymond key

1968

Original keys (2) to the Folkestone bullion store

14th Century bronze key with two identical wards facing each other, and other keys

Bunch of nine keys

1) French 15th Century key with trefoil pierced poignee surmounted by a bar; 2) Four bronze keys

Cruciform key, with square ends

Commemorative key

Key for case for pair of muzzle loading flintlock pistols

1801-1830

Key to toolbox used by S4445 BM Treacher

Key to original lock for tool box used by S4445 BM Treacher

Shotfirer's multishot battery key

Single-current telegraph key

Coal mining signalling key

circa 1960

Rymer-Jones key

Morse transmitting key

Key for Wandsworth War Memorial Maternity Home, 1920

1920

Carriage key

1875-1890

Reversing key, by Elliott Bros, London

Signalling key No.7247

Duplicate keys

Key, Old Mortice-type key found during excavations for the original Liverpool St Station

Vibroplex key

"Merit" toy morse key

Isolating key

Semi-automatic Morse key

Morse key

1914-1918

Morse key

1968

Keys for the electronic payment terminal

1990-1998

Signalling key, coal mining.

Twenty keys of various types

1) Bronze 16th Century double key with plain cylindrical stem and two wards

Odell's latch key, invented c.1792

Mine electrician's keys.

Brake van key, British Rail (Western Region), large steel mortice type key stamped BR(W).

British Rail (Western Region) brake van key

Commemorative driving key, from class 502 EMU in BR service on Liverpool - Southport & Ormskirk lines 1939-1980. Commemorating handover of M28361 & M29896 to NRM on 25 April 1980. Mounted on wood. Overall: 105 mm x 220 mm x 178 mm.

Commemorative driving key

1980

Commemorative key, Midland Railway, gold, circular end has a shield on the face engraved "Presented to Charles Booth Jnr Esq JP on opening of new Stores Of The Bootle Cold Storage & Ice Co Ltd at Canada & Sandon Station. Midland Railway June 7th 1910", the other side depicts a cow, lettered "Cold Storage", the barrel of the key represents a thermometer reading below zero, in velvet lined box.

Commemorative key

1910

Key, steel, in fitted velvet-lined leatherette case, for Great Western Railway Queen Victoria's Royal Saloon, withdrawn 1910 and key presented to John Armstrong MVO, formerly CME of the Great Western Railway.

Key for Great Western Railway Royal Saloon

Key for Regis 6 motor car, made by Crossley Motors Ltd, Manchester, with collection of related articles and other information, c.1935.

Key for Regis 6 Motor Car by Crossley Motors

Safe key, from Grimstone & Frampton.

Safe key, Grimstone & Frampton Station

Key, commemorative, silver, presented by John F Bainbridge July 4th 1925 to CM Jenkin-Jones on the opening of 4 North Eastern Railway Cottage Homes, Norton-Tees, boxed.

Silver commemorative key, North Eastern Railway Cottage Homes

1925

Driving key from electric locomotive, on wooden mount

Driving key from electric locomotive, on wooden mount