Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in pencil on front of wooden mount: 'Reg.1912.65'.
Marked in pencil on reverse of wooden mount: ‘Mogador,/Morocco./November 1912./from by collector/Baron Anatole von Hügel/1912.’
Event Date
Author: Remke Velden

Context (Related Documents)
Paper booklet found in box with objects titled: ‘Catalogue of/Locks Keys/&/Other objects/collected/By the Donors/Baron A von Hügel/ Baroness A von Hügel/& others/Teneriffe, Morocco etc./placed in Saxon Cabinet Nos.________’.

Event Date 1912
Author: Remke Velden

Description (Physical description)
Paper catalogue booklet entry for Reg 1912.63-72, handwritten in black ink, reads: ‘A set of ten Moorish padlocks & keys of/various forms,/Mogador Morocco/A.v.H.’

Event Date 1912
Author: Remke Velden

Context (Related Documents)
1912 Archaeology Accession Register p.17 reads: '1912.387-419/ A large door lock & key, & a/series of ten spring padlocks of/iron & brass, with iron keys of diverse/forms and twenty-eight other keys/of various designs./Morocco City/& Mogador./1911./Baroness A. von Hügel./AR 1912.167-205.'


Event Date 1912
Author: Remke Velden

Context (Acquisition Details)
According to the Blue Book and the Accession Register, this object was donated by Baroness von Hügel in 1912. The object's mount suggest that the donor was Baron Anatole von Hügel. The 1912 Annual Report p.7 reads: 'Archaeological: [...] From Baroness Anatole von Hugel the Museum has received an interesting series of locks and keys of various dates, which she collected in Morocco and the Canary Islands in 1911.'
Event Date 1912
Author: Remke Velden

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register description for 1912.381 - 1912.419 reads: 'A large door lock and key, and a series of ten spring padlocks of iron and brass, with iron keys of diverse forms and twenty-eight other keys of various designs.'
Event Date 1912
Author: Remke Velden

Description (Physical description)
Blue Book for BB 1912.63-72: 'A set of ten Moorish padlocks [‘spring’ later added in pencil] & keys of various forms'
Event Date 1912
Author: Remke Velden

Description (Physical description)
Metal spring padlock mounted on wooden board. It appears from a pin and a shape caused by exposure to light that a key was once mounted with the lock. This is now missing.

Event Date 3/10/2018
Author: Remke Velden

Context (Amendments / updates)
None of the 10 padlocks and keys accessioned as 1912.382-391 were marked with their IDNOs. Their mount was, however, marked with their Blue Book numbers. As they were not itemised in the Accession register for Archaeology, they have been assigned an IDNO in the order in which they appear in the Blue Book.
Event Date 6/12/2021
Author: Remke Velden

Description (Physical description)
A metal spring padlock. The body is rectangular in shape with shanks extending upwards on each side and connection at a right angle with a cylindrical bar. Decorated on each side with intersecting geometric patterns. The accompanying key is missing.
Event Date 6/12/2021
Author: Annie Tomkins