THE PENULTIMATE PADLOCK

He who owns treasures fears thieves. Confucius is meant to have said that and it is certainly the reason locks were invented. They go back as far as 500 B. C. I tried to date this one and found, to my astonishment, that there are hundreds of stock photographs of locks, none identified as to date, and at costs beginning at 99 cents.

There are a lot of them for sale, too, beginning at 99 cents. The average price is about $5.00. You can buy a dozen for $50.00 and a lot of them look like this one. So, then, this old padlock, which a friend who knows more than I do guesses at 16th Century, is not worth keeping but too old to throw out. It is 7.5 cms, 3 inches high in overall size. There is an enormous one somewhere around the house. One day I'll find it and blip it. The key to this one could be amongst those blipped earlier but am not going to check it out just now. I doubt it very much.

This pic was taken on a table shoved next to a window. It is very dark today.

The odd things I have been posting are not, as some suppose, displayed around the house. I am not a fan of ornaments or anything that requires dusting. They are in boxes where they have been for at least 100 years.

Mystery of the misty blobs: Thanks to everybody who tried, especially joesblips, to figure out the problem. As one said, there had to be a logical reason two cameras and three lenses could all start producing misty bits. It was going from a very warm and dry house into the cold and damp.

For the record. +3 C. Snow was forecast but luckily none has arrived. Very windy, very cold.