Leather cuffs

Some of you may be interested in seeing two pairs of leather handcuffs / restraints which I recently acquired.

Whilst most leather restraints seem to be used in a medical context these where used in British prisons to restrain female prisoners.



The two pairs are very similar in design but differ in one important area.



One pair is lockable while the second is secured by buckles alone. The lockable pair uses a conventional Home Office pattern key to screw a bolt through one of the holes in the wrist straps into a captive nut which is sandwiched between a double thicknesses of leather.



This pair is dated 1935 and may assist in helping to date the introduction of the Home Office pattern cuffs to around the 1930's or this may be to much of an assumption to make.



If anyone else has examples of these kinds of restraints or other leather restraints with judicial / criminal back ground as opposed to a medical background would you please consider posting images.

Thanks,

Mark (RMP)

Mark

I have one of these that came with very heavey snaps. The snaps are/were so hard to release that it took two hands to release them. Thus the cuff was quite secure. One side unfortunately is broken. I will try to post a picture.

Joe

Some of you may be interested in seeing two pairs of leather handcuffs / restraints which I recently acquired.

Whilst most leather restraints seem to be used in a medical context these where used in British prisons to restrain female prisoners.



The two pairs are very similar in design but differ in one important area.



One pair is lockable while the second is secured by buckles alone. The lockable pair uses a conventional Home Office pattern key to screw a bolt through one of the holes in the wrist straps into a captive nut which is sandwiched between a double thicknesses of leather.



This pair is dated 1935 and may assist in helping to date the introduction of the Home Office pattern cuffs to around the 1930's or this may be to much of an assumption to make.



If anyone else has examples of these kinds of restraints or other leather restraints with judicial / criminal back ground as opposed to a medical background would you please consider posting images.

Thanks,

Mark (RMP)

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Wow! These are interesting to say the least. I wonder what the early versions of Humane Restraint look like. I wonder if the snap Joe is referring to is one that can only be unsnapped one way, I have seen those type of snaps used on gun holsters.

-Dorson

Some of you may be interested in seeing two pairs of leather handcuffs / restraints which I recently acquired.

Whilst most leather restraints seem to be used in a medical context these where used in British prisons to restrain female prisoners.



The two pairs are very similar in design but differ in one important area.



One pair is lockable while the second is secured by buckles alone. The lockable pair uses a conventional Home Office pattern key to screw a bolt through one of the holes in the wrist straps into a captive nut which is sandwiched between a double thicknesses of leather.



This pair is dated 1935 and may assist in helping to date the introduction of the Home Office pattern cuffs to around the 1930's or this may be to much of an assumption to make.



If anyone else has examples of these kinds of restraints or other leather restraints with judicial / criminal back ground as opposed to a medical background would you please consider posting images.

Thanks,

Mark (RMP)

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Some years a ago I purchased two pair of leather cuffs which look similar.
Only difference is the lockingmecganisme.
Mine have some kind of svivelplate, you have to push it down under an angle and turn 90 degrees in order to unlock. I can lock myself into tem and get out aswell, so they aren't tgat secure.

Best regards,
Eric

Some of you may be interested in seeing two pairs of leather handcuffs / restraints which I recently acquired.

Whilst most leather restraints seem to be used in a medical context these where used in British prisons to restrain female prisoners.



The two pairs are very similar in design but differ in one important area.



One pair is lockable while the second is secured by buckles alone. The lockable pair uses a conventional Home Office pattern key to screw a bolt through one of the holes in the wrist straps into a captive nut which is sandwiched between a double thicknesses of leather.



This pair is dated 1935 and may assist in helping to date the introduction of the Home Office pattern cuffs to around the 1930's or this may be to much of an assumption to make.



If anyone else has examples of these kinds of restraints or other leather restraints with judicial / criminal back ground as opposed to a medical background would you please consider posting images.

Thanks,

Mark (RMP)

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I sold a pair of these many years ago on eBay. The guy I bought them from stated they were used in Wormworth Scrubs. I couldn't understand why as they did not lock.