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Lock
Door lock
Lost Art-ID
631769
Artist / Creator
Title
Lock
Additional title
Door lock
Dating
1800 (around)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Metal (Wrought iron) ; Metal (Non-ferrous metal)
Inventory number
964
Description
Box lock, mounted on a wooden panel, with meander-patterned fittings and key. The keyhole is secured by a movable human forearm.
Provenance
Formerly the Guben City Museum. Parts of the collection were apparently evacuated to Kossar (today: Kosierz) in 1942/43. The part of the collection that remained in Guben is said to have been looted between 1945 and 1948 and has been considered lost ever since.
Literature / Source
Foto: Erwin Schreyer (1943)
Museumsverband des Landes Brandenburg e. V. (Hrsg. (2023). Verlustsache: Märkische Sammlungen. Die Brandenburger Museumslandschaften in Krieg und Nachkriegszeit. Museumsblätter. 42 (1), 50-51.
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Stadt- und Industriemuseum
Gasstraße 5
03172 Guben
Germany
Phone
+49 3561 6871-2101
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