Does anyone have any information regarding this older YALE lock ?

chicklett

I need help dating this lock. It’s solid brass marked on one side US and YALE on the other. It measures roughly 1 ⅛″ long X 1 ¼″ wide without the locking part included in the measurement. The locking part is thick and round. When you put in the key you push up and turn all at the same time. It’s marked on one end ‘ UR 5423 ’. Thanks for any information you may have to offer !!

Dean Nickel

I could be wrong but the US Yale locks were used by the US Gov armed forces and other departments in the early part of the 1900s maybe even the late 1800s. As to when that lock was used or made I couldn’t hazard a guess outside that. My grandfather used quite a few when he was in the Navy in the 1920s and 30s.

Billy B Edwards Jr. CML

I agree with Dean, that style was made in the late 1800’s up until around the 1950’s. The locks up until around 1910 used a perfectly flat key so yours is likely after that. The shackle on yours is called a ‘bull ring’ shackle and was probablyused to lock up foot lockers or gear bags/duffle bags. The fact that the US is cast into the body gives a little date info and IIRC that was only done by Yale from the 1880’s until around 1930-1935. So your lock was likely made between 1910 and 1935.

You could call Yale and ask them when the UR code series was active for specific date information. They may or may not have that information available. The info was there when I was Key Records Manager for them but that was 20 years ago.
BBE.