✅ SOLVED old lock but used on what?

[mountainman 2]

I found this old lock in the woods. It has Corbin written on the front. I know it's a lock of some type but what would it have been attached to( front door, item of furniture?) Also an approximate age. Thanks all. MM2

 

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Door.

Called a "door box lock".

here are similar...

 

[Red-Coat]

Yep. It’s a utilitarian rim lock and for use on doors of all kinds, with the spindle for a knob through that square hole.

That particular Corbin trademark was registered in 1915 (first use in commerce 1904) for “Door fasteners, Locks, Lock fronts, Lock cases, Lock parts, Cupboard catches and fasteners, Keys, Key blanks, Latches, Padlocks, Bolts, and Strikes.”

The trademark was owned by the American Hardware Corporation of New Britain, Connecticut, last renewed in 1975 (expired 6 years later), but your lock looks to be from the earlier part of the 1900s.

 

[mountainman 2]

Thank you both. 1st one i found.