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Need Help With This Euro Lock

Postby Bioniccreeper03 » 17 Jul 2008 18:16

I came across this lock today and could figure it out and can't find anything online anybody have a clue how to open it? It on a Hummel Figure like Penny Bank



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Postby MacGyver101 » 17 Jul 2008 21:52

I've not seen that type of lock before... but if it's on a ceramic piggy-bank, I'm going to guess that it's likely a simple warded lock.

I suspect that the inner "plug" isn't in its proper position at the moment: can you freely turn the inner plug 90 degrees (counter-)clockwise? If so, the original key likely has a notch cut out of it that matches the two holes in the "plug", and I'm guessing that it pulls back a spring-loaded latch when turned to the left (much like a handcuff key)?
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Postby MacGyver101 » 17 Jul 2008 21:54

MacGyver101 wrote:. . . when turned to the left (much like a handcuff key)?


Sorry: that should have read "when turned to the right". It looks like the steel pin to the left of the keyway is there to prevent the key from turning to the left. :)
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Postby mh » 18 Jul 2008 0:49

it's a tiny lever lock. Very common for piggy banks in Germany 20 years ago.
Maybe 2 or 3 levers?
"The techs discovered that German locks were particularly difficult" - Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton w. Henry R. Schlesinger, Spycraft: The secret history of the CIA's spytechs from communism to Al-Qaeda (New York: Dutton, 2008), p. 210
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