Squelchtone wrote:It is a closet and the door pulls towards you?
You could remove the hinge pins and take the whole door out of the frame. Then take the lock out of the mortise in the door and bring it to a locksmith shop to match up a skeleton key. Is it her house or the landlords house or apartment?
When is the last time this door has been opened, and did she ever have the key to it or did she lose the key recently? If that door has never been opened there is a chance it is painted shut.
Is your key from the same house or do you just happen to have a similar lock on your houses closet doors? Does the handle of your key have a 8 shaped hole in it and is anything like p9 or Q13 stamped on the stem of the key?
Squelchtone
It's a dorm style apartment building built in 1910. I'm not sure if the lock is from then but the original keyhole on the front door of the room is the same. I know that they really did a lot of it in the 20 and 30s though.
The closet works. The key is gone though. It disappeared about 4 days ago
I live in the same building and her key was similar but definitely different because it only goes in the lock half way. From what I can tell, it's because her groove running down the middle of the key's bit was slightly wider and along the opposing side.
Mine has an r14 stamp. Her key had r9. The base is just a circle.
As for the doorhinge, it looks like someone batted the edge so that it moves but the top is totally painted over. Thank you for your help. I'm super new to this, so I'm not sure what information you actually need.
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