Cuff of the Day for May 22. Clemen & Jung - Clejuso

Here is the schedule for coming days.  Take your pictures now.\\

22nd Friday - Clejuso
23rd  Saturday  Mattatuck, Maltby, and Judd
Nipper Madness Begins.   A series of days devoted to nippers, grips and come-alongs.   
24th Sunday - The US Patent List.  How many can we find?
25th Monday -  US Nippers - Not on the patent list, odd balls and copies.
26th Tuesday - British Nippers
27th Wednesday -  Nippers from Europe and the Rest of the World

Today we study the cuffs made by Clemen & Jung - Clejuso.   This is a good day for you experts on modern cuffs to show us your cuffs.

I will start with a Darby, one of my favorites because of its "backwards" linkage.

Here are a few of my Clejuso.

First version swing-around with puffed key holes and flat key

An early version of the swing-around with marking DRPa (Deutsches Reichspatent angemeldet = patent applied for)

The double weight version

Lars

Clejuso Model 9 High Security Handcuffs. The Clejuso Model 9 is stainless steel with finger activated double locks. It uses unique keys and has keyholes on both sides.

Clejuso Model 15 Heavyweight Handcuffs.  these are some of the thickest, heaviest handcuffs ever made.

Clejuso Model 17 Heavy Weight Handcuff with Anchor. Anchor can be used to secure prisoner to a stationary object.  

Clejuso Model 13 Medium Weight Handcuffs. These handcuffs are huge by most standards, but are still smaller than Model 15.

Clejuso Model 19R Hinged Stainless Steel Handcuffs.

Clejuso Model 12 Stainless Steel Handcuffs.

Clejuso Model 12A Oversized Stainless Steel Handcuffs.

Clejuso Model 101 Hinged High Security Handcuffs. Pin tumbler locks are extremely pick resistant. 
Very heavy duty construction and hinge. Double locks activated by turning key.

Clejuso Model 103 High Security Leg Irons. feature pin tumbler locks for extreme pick resistance. The double lock is activated by turning the key. 

Two I will add to the assortment today is the #19SH, which is the hinged version of the #9 High Security Cuff and the set of very small Adjustable Darby Long Chain Cuffs that I have. These are around WWII era. You can see their size relative to the key pictured with them.
-Richard Knip-

Two Clejejuso vintage leg irons (different chains), One of them is marked "Tillhör Polisen" (property of the Swedish police). I'm told these leg irons were also used on the really big and bad guys as handcuffs.

Clejuso Darby handcuffs

Clejuso 1


Clejuso 109


Clejuso 8


And a special version of the Clejuso 15 with 5cm bar

Clejuso 19R exists in 3 different cuff orientations. In the center - a modification with black Teflon coating.

Nothing special to post that has not already been posted. My first dealings with Clemen & Jung was in 1976 when I was a partner with Fetters. You will note that model 7 had been discontinued. The prices on the left were our sale prices. You will see the model 12 was available in 4 models, the single and double weight models which could be single locked or double locked. Never understood why they bothered with the single lock model?

Fast forward 14 years to 1990 and this shows the range and prices available.

I also have some letters (somewhere) from dealing with Clemen & Jung back in early 1980’s and Mr Pleithner, a very nice and polite man. When searching I found that the owner now is Axel Pleithner, probably the son of “K” (Karl?) Pleithner.

These are the sort of documents etc. that need cataloguing. We are just temporary custodians doing our best to preserve items. I have collected boxes of correspondence over the past 50 years and almost certainly when I am gone the hardware will be relocated but most of the paperwork will be thrown out. Any ideas?

Chris

I have the same concerns. I have dozens of 3-ring binders filled with information about inventors, manufacturers and dealers of police equipment that I have collected over 30 years. I would like to offer it to a police museum, but there are only about 30 of them in the U.S. and most just display artifacts and don't seem really interested in research. I am exploring these museums to determine if any of them would be a good depository. You might try a police museum or lock museum.

Matt

Here in Sweden, I have no confidence in museums at all. Most of the people working in the "culture sector" are left wing people and in general women. They have a very little knowledge and absolutely no interest in gathering knowledge in the artifacts. They love to gather donated stuff but it's rarely displayed for the general public, rather stored. Just a little amount of the artifacts are displayed. I can see no reason to give them anything as it will not be taken care of in a proper way.
I rather see my stuff going to younger "caretakers" collections for them to share and taking care of for the future. The only question is; are there any of them or are collectors an extinctIng genus?

Lars

Clemen & Jung - Clejuso 

Model 128M Combination Handcuffs & Leg Irons (Clejuso. #11 handcuffs attached to heavy #8 leg irons with a 27-inch chain).

Regarding your paperwork. Government or State Libraries are a good option here in Australia for depositing documents. They never throw anything away. They catalog them  and preserve them for future researchers. Museums aren't really interested because they don't have money or resources to look after them.

Some Clejusos, nothing much special here.

A Clejuso combination (sometimes referred to as a Hamburg combination, I think). What's interesting is that on most restraints of this type, the system had a padlock instead of a solid chain link next to the leg iron. At first I thought that it was a repair, or a fix. It might have been factory made this way. I wrote Mr. Pleithner from Clejuso, he says all he knows that it's rather old. My guess is 1920s-30s. Any thoughts on this?

Even today you can order any special combination of Clejuso from the factory. The "hospital restraint" is a new combination consisting of a single high security handcuff with single leg iron and a 4 foot chain. Supposedly this type was requested by a correctional facility; how they are using it remains their secret.