Took me 2 1/2 years but finally found one

[toasted]

A complete skeleton key. Hard to believe it took this long with all the earlier sites Ive hunted. Also managed one of my nicer non silver thimbles. Both from my pounded Pomander site after a heavy rain using the 9" coil in the iron. Any skeleton key experts out there that could put this one in the colonial period as I believe the thimble to be

 

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[dirtdigginfool]

Niiice...I've not found ANY part of a skeleton key, far less a complete one. Love the patina, I wouldn't even rinse it off! Congrats...Ddf

 

[redcobra8u]

Very nice!

 

[against the wind]

Really nice skeleton key.
Congratulations

 

[Mzjavert]

Looks like that key has a magnificent patina beneath the dirt.

 

[toasted]

Looks like that key has a magnificent patina beneath the dirt.

It looks to me to be made of pewter possibly so more of a grey patina rather than green

 

[bonepicker]

Nice. I'm like you. I always find one end or the other, but I don't think I have ever dug a complete.

 

[Gridwalker306]

That's an awesome key! Glad you finally found it, and it's such a good one.

 

[CASPER-2]

ive found more than a few of those - think theyre more like mid to late 1800s
but nice to get complete ones

 

[CASPER-2]

I also believe those were made of a metal mixture - think the grey is from zinc either added or coated
pewter would be to soft to use for a key and would bend

 

[CASPER-2]

tried to find picks of mine - are on puter that crashed
but here is one I used in an article I wrote
top key is model A or T ford
middle is a colonial brass one
and bottom one is like yours
https://www.flickr.com/photos/casper-2/6289973141/in/photostream/

 

[tomhighland]

Very nice key. Great job!

 

[park pirate]

Congrats on some nice finds....

 

[RVRoamer74]

Like the key...Congrats !!

 

[pepperj]

Well done on the thimble and key, both are nice keepers.

 

[Mud Hut]

Your key looks very thimbolic -- two nice finds.

 

[pa-dirt_nc-sand]

I would have that you had found a handful by now, strange how this hobby goes. I never found a thimble then have have 4 in the last 4-5 months, but never a sterling one. Nice finds.

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on the 2 keepers

 

[WHADIFIND]

It's a neat find, regardless. I've found a few and this style seems to prevail. Across all times.

 

[GA_Boy]

That appears to be an actual skeleton key. It is very thin. Also a nice thimble. I'm hot sure but I saw and had skeleton keys like that in the '40's-'50's. Lots of folks present regular thicker key pictures and call them skeleton keys. There is a difference as most of the thicker keys came with a particular lock. The house that I was born in had those locks.
Through the years that particular design, whether thick or thin has become known as a skeleton key.
Marvin