Duke Duke Duke, Duke of Earle mortise cylinder

[Squelchtone]

I work in a building that's been around since the 1800's, and while hanging out in the old abandoned in house locksmith shop in our basement I found an Earle brand mortise cylinder. I really like the logo, it looks like an old Ford logo to me.

ebay came through and I easily found the ER1 blanks I need to impression a key.






I'll update the post as I have some time to prep the key blank and do some filing =)

If anyone has any info on the Earle company I am interested in learning about them. I think they were from Reading PA.

Squelchtone


*the finish on the cylinder is brown, which I'm not a fan of, but I dont want to polish it too much and remove any of the logo. the brass you see if from my light buffing/sanding to see how easily the finish would come off.

[Mudman]

I like logo as well! Looking forward to that key.

[blue60]

let me check (it might take a day or 4) but I might have some brass ER1 blanks in a box in my storage unit.

[femurat]

Impressioning such an old lock with the risk of ruining it? Be very gentle and light handed
I'd pick and disassemble it, and then file down a key to match the pins.

Cheers

[MacGnG1]

oh wow, yeah that is quite a nice logo!

i think i have some of those ER1 blanks in brass, i will look thru the box of random blanks, i know i saw one yesterday.

[billdeserthills]

I would think this lock would work as well using a kwikset key

[jeffmoss26]

I have two - no original keys - SE1 and AR1 work fine as shown below:

[Ralph_Goodman]

...while hanging out in the old abandoned in house locksmith shop in our basement...

This quote made me so jealous.