My Mom found a key today that my Dad was hiding behind a picture. He
died many years back, so I have no idea what it goes to and I was
hoping that someone could help me. I have the picture posted at my
website:

www.geekbyphone.com/key.html

Thanks,
GeekChick

"GeekChick" wrote in message
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My Mom found a key today that my Dad was hiding behind a picture. He
died many years back, so I have no idea what it goes to and I was
hoping that someone could help me. I have the picture posted at my
website:

www.geekbyphone.com/key.html

It could be a key to change the combination on a lock, or maybe it is a key for
thos 'keyed' light switches.

Bob

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On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:09:40 -0800, GeekChick
wrote:

My Mom found a key today that my Dad was hiding behind a picture. He
died many years back, so I have no idea what it goes to and I was
hoping that someone could help me. I have the picture posted at my
website:

www.geekbyphone.com/key.html

Looks very much like a key to a bathroom or other interior door. He
probably kept it here so you wouldn't take it when you were a kid and
locked yourself in the bathroom or your bedroom occasionally.

Yeah, looks _very_ much like the "key" people use to unlatch
interior door locks on bathrooms for when the door is accidentally
locked from the wrong side, or the kid locks themselves in. These
days people usually use screwdrivers or roasting skewers.

[Or at least, I do ;-)]

The other thing it's location suggests is that it might be
a key for something they didn't want you getting into - like
a very old/primitive/not-very-secure lock on a gun or money
box or something like that.
--
Chris Lewis,

Age and Treachery will Triumph over Youth and Skill
It's not just anyone who gets a Starship Cruiser class named after them.

GeekChick wrote:
My Mom found a key today that my Dad was hiding behind a picture.
He died many years back, so I have no idea what it goes to and I was
hoping that someone could help me. I have the picture posted at my
website:

www.geekbyphone.com/key.html

Possibly a Nigerian safety deposit box


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....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico

On Nov 8, 11:09 am, GeekChick wrote:
My Mom found a key today that my Dad was hiding behind a picture. He
died many years back, so I have no idea what it goes to and I was
hoping that someone could help me. I have the picture posted at my
website:

www.geekbyphone.com/key.html

Thanks,
GeekChick

Looks like the key to a cheap metal storage box like this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Old-Metal-Cash-B... QcmdZViewItem

Maybe that's his box on ebay? ;-)

BTW the bathroom door keys that I have are more like nails with just
the end filed flat. In fact, I've made a few out of nails and a
grinder. The keyhole is round and wouldn't accept a flat key like the
one in your picture. In addition, I think your's is too short to be a
door key.

"DerbyDad03" wrote in message
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On Nov 8, 11:09 am, GeekChick wrote:
My Mom found a key today that my Dad was hiding behind a picture. He
died many years back, so I have no idea what it goes to and I was
hoping that someone could help me. I have the picture posted at my
website:

www.geekbyphone.com/key.html

Thanks,
GeekChick

Looks like the key to a cheap metal storage box like this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Old-Metal-Cash-B... QcmdZViewItem

Maybe that's his box on ebay? ;-)

BTW the bathroom door keys that I have are more like nails with just
the end filed flat. In fact, I've made a few out of nails and a
grinder. The keyhole is round and wouldn't accept a flat key like the
one in your picture. In addition, I think your's is too short to be a
door key.


A friend of mine and his wife once bought a dresser at an antique auction,
and when they turned it flat to load it into their pickup, they heard
something rattling around inside. When they got home, they pulled out the
drawers and found a metal cash box with about $7,000.00 in it. Perhaps the
OP should start poking around the house...

on 11/8/2007 11:09 AM GeekChick said the following:
My Mom found a key today that my Dad was hiding behind a picture. He
died many years back, so I have no idea what it goes to and I was
hoping that someone could help me. I have the picture posted at my
website:

www.geekbyphone.com/key.html

Thanks,
GeekChick


Looks like a cheap jewelry box key. Just enough of a lock to keep the
kids out of it.

--

Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
To email, remove the double zeroes after @

On Nov 8, 2:36 pm, wrote:
On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:22:34 -0800, DerbyDad03
wrote:





On Nov 8, 11:09 am, GeekChick wrote:
My Mom found a key today that my Dad was hiding behind a picture. He
died many years back, so I have no idea what it goes to and I was
hoping that someone could help me. I have the picture posted at my
website:

www.geekbyphone.com/key.html

Thanks,
GeekChick

Looks like the key to a cheap metal storage box like this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Old-Metal-Cash-B...18493QQihZ013Q...

Maybe that's his box on ebay? ;-)

BTW the bathroom door keys that I have are more like nails with just
the end filed flat. In fact, I've made a few out of nails and a
grinder. The keyhole is round and wouldn't accept a flat key like the
one in your picture. In addition, I think your's is too short to be a
door key.

It's not really a "security" lock, it's a "privacy" lock. The lock on
a bathroom door is just to prevent folks from barging in without
knocking.

I'm not sure where I implied it was a security lock...but thanks for
that information anyway.

I lived in a house where the bathroom door knob had a round hole and
the key that came with it was a flat key stamped out of metal similar
to the one in her picture. Your ebay cash box clearly uses a skeleton
key.


The "like this" referred to the cheap metal box, not the lock. I have
a cheap metal box at home that has (had) a key like the one pictured.

Was the flat key to your bathroom less than 2" long? Just seems a tad
short to be a door key, IME.

GeekChick wrote:
My Mom found a key today that my Dad was hiding behind a picture. He
died many years back, so I have no idea what it goes to and I was
hoping that someone could help me. I have the picture posted at my
website:

www.geekbyphone.com/key.html

Thanks,
GeekChick



Did he fool around at all?

It might have been the key to a girlfriend's apartment, and maybe your
mom hid it there so that he'd get no new key. G

Jeff

--
Jeffry Wisnia
(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)
The speed of light is 1.8*10^12 furlongs per fortnight.

"GeekChick" wrote in message
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My Mom found a key today that my Dad was hiding behind a picture. He
died many years back, so I have no idea what it goes to and I was
hoping that someone could help me. I have the picture posted at my
website:

www.geekbyphone.com/key.html

Thanks,
GeekChick


Common style that was used on chastity belts. Looks like the master key.

GeekChick wrote:
www.geekbyphone.com/key.html

That looks very similar to, though not identical to, the gizmo I got with
my Taylor weather instruments to adjust the mechanisms precisely.

--
One meter, to within 0.0125% accuracy (off by just under .005 inches):
Three feet
Three inches
Three eights of an inch

GeekChick wrote:

My Mom found a key today that my Dad was hiding behind a picture. He
died many years back, so I have no idea what it goes to and I was
hoping that someone could help me. I have the picture posted at my
website:

www.geekbyphone.com/key.html

Thanks,
GeekChick

It's the key to my heart.