lock
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Large door lock decorated with pierced scrollwork on back plate, engraving and punchwork on top plates. Scrolled ironwork handle to springlatch and bolt latch. Bolt is moved with warded key from outside, or by lever from inside. This lever can also latch the bolt back. Pivot shaft to spring latch has square hole for doorknob, accessible from either side. Handmade.
label: Description
content: In August 2022, staff in the curatorial Division of Work and Industry discovered the provenance for this and other identified objects as, related to Nazi-era activities. Keywords included “distressed shipment,” “1940,” and “Germany.” Upon this discovery, staff reached out to partner organizations in Washington, D.C. and Germany to identify previous owners and better understand the nature of the transactions. Efforts to identify the original owners and contact next of kin are ongoing. These objects were shipped from Germany in March of 1940 aboard the Deutschland and were seized in New York City by U.S. Customs where they were “voluntarily abandoned” by the receiver due to insufficient documentation. They were subsequently transferred to the Smithsonian Institution in May of 1940. Curators at the time reached out to the intended recipient for further information, with no reply.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Europe
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.335858
label: catalog number
content: 335858
label: accession number
content: 156484
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lock
label: Other Terms
content: Lock; Spring Bolt; Keyed
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, iron (key material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, iron (?? material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 3/4 in x 5 3/4 in x 2 3/4 in; 40.005 cm x 14.605 cm x 6.985 cm