[TheForge] Mastermyr Hinges

Thu Oct 16 09:31:00 2003

Steve,
Please send me the info about the mastermyr locks at remwillow @ 
hotmail.com.
Thank you,
Bob M.

>From: Steve Smith <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [TheForge] Mastermyr Hinges
>Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 21:41:03 -0400
>
>The article was in Swedish, but had great drawings showing how various 
>locks went together. I did send one drawing with a one page writeup to go 
>along with the chest; I don't know if it still survives. I have appended 
>the text below. I will send you the image via your personal email (theforge 
>rejects images). If anyone else wants a copy, please write me.  I'd send 
>the MS Word file, but it is 8.1M. Only in MS Word could it become so 
>large...
>
>I'll try to find my copy, but it looks pretty hopeless at this time.
>
>Steve Smith
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>M�stermyr Chest, with Certain Liberties taken about the Lock
>Steven O. Smith
>[email protected]
>April 29, 2002
>
>If you study the lock in the M�stermyr book 1, you will see that the 
>drawing is not detailed enough to determine how the lock worked. In 
>addition to this, no key was found with the chest. I wrote to the museum 
>which has the chest 2, asking if they could tell me how the lock worked. 
>Mr. Kent Andersson, Docent, senior curator was kind enough to send me an 
>article 3 including the figure on the back of this page.
>
>The chest was found with damage to the lid, leaving a gaping hole. The 
>authors of the M�stermyr book 1 argue that there was originally a smaller 
>hole in the lid for a person to put their hand in when carrying. I think 
>this is silly�the chest weighs 30 pounds empty, much more full; this would 
>be an incredibly awkward way to carry it. In addition, careful measurements 
>of the drawings of the chest has convinced me that the hole would have been 
>too small for this purpose. For these reasons I decided to leave the lid 
>with no hole. I think that the chest has no handles because it was 
>originally built to be a stationary chest, not portable.
>
>1 The M�stermyr Find - A Viking Age Tool Chest from Gotland by Greta 
>Arwidsson and G�sta Berg, Kungl. Vitterhets Historie Och Antikvitets 
>Akademien, Almqvist & Wiksell International, Stockholm, Sweden 1983.
>
>2 Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm, Sweden.
>
>3 Bronsnycklar och Djurornamentik, Av Bertil Almgren, Uppsala, 1955. I 
>don�t know what it says either, but it sounds bibliographical.
>
>
>Scott Lane wrote:
>>
>>>making the chest which is part of the travelling collection. I did have a 
>>>little
>>>more, an article describing locks of similar type to the one on the 
>>>chest. Not
>>>specific documentation, just supporting. Next you're going to ask for a 
>>>copy,
>>>which would be very difficult; we're in the middle of moving cross 
>>>country, so
>>>finding it will be non-trivial.
>>
>>
>>         Could I get a copy?  ;)
>>         Do you remember where the article came from, or and author?  I'll 
>>try to look it up....
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Lord Aodhfin Seibert
>>White Fire Forge
>>
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