[TheForge] Mastermyr Hinges

Thu Oct 16 19:45:00 2003

Are you sure you want me to send an 8MB file? Do you have dsl or cable? 
Otherwise I can send you a hardcopy.

Steve

Robert Morris wrote:

> 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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