Rare Yale & Towne Time Locks, Seth Thomas

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Rare Yale & Towne Time Locks, Seth Thomas:
$67.88

This is a nice pair of Yale &Towne time locks. They do not have the brass cases or any keys with them. They could use a good cleaning but I\'ll leave that up to the seller. I took an old clock key and wound each of the clock works and they all seemed to work fine. Overall they seem to be in good shape for their age, below is the information I could find on them. Being sold as is see pictures for details. Last picture is from the site I found the information below.

Information-A. Model K31 1/2. (sometimes called a \'bathtub\' time lock due to the shape of the brass case housing the combination lock). This time lock was designed specifically for use in a freestanding bank chest designed by the Hibbard-Rodman-Ely Safe Co. of New York, NY (later the Manganese Steel Safe Co. see photo below). Each lock contained two Seth Thomas made 72 hour \'L\' sized movements along with a four tumbler combination lock. The \'L\' was Yale\'s medium sized and most popular type movement used in a wide variety of their time lock models. The safe contained a pair of these so as to encompass two combination locks and four (two pairs) of time locks. Unlike most time locks, with the exception of Consolidated, these operated directly on the combination lock rather than the safe\'s bolt work. Production runs for this lock ran from 1902 through 1911. Of a total of 1500 to 2000 of these locks made about 100 of these locks are now known to survive; fewer than 20 in sequentially numbered pairs.