Sargent lock

oldbiscuit · 2011-05-27T01:23:08+00:00

Here’s a Sargent lock I picked up a while back on Ebay. I had read an article in the Journal of Lock Collecting where the author had a similar lock with the same markings that had square pins inside rather than round. I bought this lock locked without a key not knowing the pin type,but hoping for the rare square pins. But as my luck would have it ,they were the traditional round pins. I was able to pick the lock open and remove the internal assembly screw, dissassemble the lock, clean it,find a key blank,cut it to match the pins and reassemble it to make a working lock. I have asked the author for any information on the age of the lock as well as asking various other collectors with no results. I’ve seen this same lock with the name Sargent in raised letters across the center rather than the fancy S & CO scroll on mine. The reverse sides are the same on the scroll desing and the raised name design. Anyone out there have any info or know where to point me to look? Thanks, Mark🙁think):

Timothy

I try to find anything on Sargent & Company Logo, While going into some of Sargent 1917 Catalog 15 I found one that has logo some how same at padlock but this is S & G Company. Also add information….Tim….

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wylk

As far as I know, there is no connection between Sargent & Greenleaf and Sargent. Corrections are welcome.

The logo you included in the last post dates roughly from 1907 to 1925.

Pschiffe

Timothy wrote
I try to find anything on Sargent & Company Logo, While going into some of Sargent 1917 Catalog 15 I found one that has logo some how same at padlock but this is S & G Company. Also add information….Tim….

Timothy, see thumbnail attached for Sargent & Co. historical logos. From Historical Research Series #19, May 1987 by the late Thomas F. Hennessy.

Pete Schifferli

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Timothy

Wylk
You right but I was just given information of the logo almost same letter only they add Greenleaf to it. If you look again the it was 1886 the first one they has. This was only for example of what two almost look alike with the way letter it. Otherwise sorry to mess it up….Tim….

Pschiffe

Timothy wrote
Wylk
You right but I was just given information of the logo almost same letter only they add Greenleaf to it. If you look again the it was 1886 the first one they has. This was only for example of what two almost look alike with the way letter it. Otherwise sorry to mess it up….Tim….

Sargent & Co. of New Haven, CT was formed by Joseph B. Sargent in 1854. Sargent & Greenleaf was organized in 1865 by James Sargent in Rochester, NY*. I am unaware of any connection whatever between the two firms.

*adapted from Early Locks and Lockmakers of America, Rev. 3rd Edition by the late Thomas F. Hennessy; former curator of Lock Museum of America

Pete Schifferli

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