Why can I not identify these?

What type or brand vintage cuffs are these:



I think they are really neat but have not seen any like that before?

darby and tower!!!
that's an easy one.

What type or brand vintage cuffs are these:



I think they are really neat but have not seen any like that before?

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This is not a real Darby. This is a fantasy of the picture author because there is no way to open cuffs

What type or brand vintage cuffs are these:



I think they are really neat but have not seen any like that before?

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You know it's not real, because............... it's a drawing.

It's an artistic representation but then we ALL!! all know this. so the original poster is just trying to get a conversation started with this as the base, or is actually just silly.

Any replies are also silly, just like this one.
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I think they are really neat but have not seen any like that before?

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An artistic representation must be realistic in principle. Tower drawing is realistic, Darby is not. Moreover Darby and Tower are both of the same period of time. It is a bit silly to speak about Darby as a modern British handcuffs if telling about Tower as an old American handcuffs

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“An artistic representation must be realistic in principle.”
All the dragons and unicorns I have ever seen do not exist in principle unless close to the idea, like lizards and horses.

The text under the drawing says British handcuff. Not much more British than Darby.

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I think they are really neat but have not seen any like that before?

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where is the drawing from??

What type or brand vintage cuffs are these:



I think they are really neat but have not seen any like that before?

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The ad vertisement is on USA Ebay for a distributor of lock devices.
I did not want to bid on it if I thought it was a fake.

~~Thanks another!

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do you have a link for this ebay site, I would like to know more.

What type or brand vintage cuffs are these:



I think they are really neat but have not seen any like that before?

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I recognize the picture. I own the book it is from. Its called "the Story of Keys and Locks". It was in my elementary school library until I bought it at the yearly book sale.

Was my first book on locks and I read it dozens of times. The cuff article describes that the movies make escape seem much easier than it really is and that they are strong enough to tow a boat. Most of the other locks described are quite old so perhaps they maintained the tone with these elder models. I would find it hard to believe that at the time of writing (60s) non-swingthrough cuffs were used commonly.

The book is on ebay right now:
http://wap.ebay.com/Pages/ViewItem.aspx ... l=0%7Cnull

My copy had an illustrated cover. This one does not but the ad has more pages you can browse.