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    • A Life's Collection
      • Skeleton Keys
      • Automobile Keys
      • Aftermarket & Look-Alikes
      • Padlocks & Latches
      • Cylinders & Cores
      • Banking, Vault & Combo
    • Prized Finds
      • Ornate Originals
      • Commercial Keys
      • Unusual Applications
      • Equipment & Supplies
    • They Speak to Me
      • Sales Pieces
      • Tags & Fobs
      • Original Packaging
    • XO
      • Great Memories
      • In a Family Way
      • For Trade
    • Book a Talk
  • Home
  • A Life's Collection
    • Skeleton Keys
    • Automobile Keys
    • Aftermarket & Look-Alikes
    • Padlocks & Latches
    • Cylinders & Cores
    • Banking, Vault & Combo
  • Prized Finds
    • Ornate Originals
    • Commercial Keys
    • Unusual Applications
    • Equipment & Supplies
  • They Speak to Me
    • Sales Pieces
    • Tags & Fobs
    • Original Packaging
  • XO
    • Great Memories
    • In a Family Way
    • For Trade
  • Book a Talk
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K E Y O F T H E D A Y

K E Y O F T H E D A Y K E Y O F T H E D A Y K E Y O F T H E D A Y

Great Memories

This page is about pieces whose stories are personally important. After a lifetime of collecting, I still occasionally lose my breath over a discovery or a gift.  Here are a few examples to help you understand what really 'throws my bolt'

While not important on their face, these Best keys were given to me by my father. They are from a now defunct television tube manufacturing plant in upstate New York

My father bought this key for me on a business trip to Buenos Aires

My father bought the Bulldog on a business trip to Tokyo, and I bought the Dudley in Pennsylvania in my early teens

My mother deserves equal credit for contributing to my collection. These are a sampling of keys received as birthday and Christmas gifts (some of which were her father's)

Some keys have never 'worked'.  Gifts from friends, these are ceremonial, from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and the Czech Republic

I bought these keys in Saranac Lake in 1985.  A starving college student, I'd already begun skipping meals to pay for keys

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