Part of lock. Wooden lock with key. One piece of the lock contains three holes each of which has in it a retractable metal rod. This piece fits over the other part of the lock which has four holes in it, which receives the metal rods when the lock is in the closed positions. The key is rectangular length of wood with four pieces of metal fixed in it, which when pushed in the lock, make the rods in the latter retract.
lock
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