House keys, the perfect accessory

[mmcnealy]

So, I got to thinking about house keys today as accessories to costumes. So I went looking on my lunch break for pictures of period keys and if there were any modern equivalents that I could afford.

Informative sites with pictures of keys from the 15-16th century
http://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/museums/oikos/port64.htm
http://www.aschkenes.com/16th-19th%20Century%20Keys%201.htm

http://www.londonjoiners.com/sales/list_page/keys

A site selling inexpenisive (in comparison) antique keys
http://www.deabath.com/Keys/keys.htm



This is a tempting eBay store
http://stores.ebay.com/The-Compulsive-Collector_W0QQcolZ2QQdirZQ2d1QQdptZ0QQpZ7QQsclZallQQsotimedisplayZ2QQtZkm

Comments

[ciorstan.livejournal.com]

I think you ought to be warned before some officious person asks you why you're wearing a key (singular) at an SCA event. A Silver Key and a Gold Key are registered SCA heraldic symbols, and have a specific meaning attached to them. Go ahead and wear at least two or more keys, but wearing one might get you tagged as a seneschal or one who can provide loaner garb.

That exact thing happened to me once. I added another couple of skeleton keys to the one I was wearing dangling from my belt and all was fine. This is one of the sillier things that happens in the SCA-- running afoul of non-period symbols associated with ordinary objects. Just don't get me going about colored belts...

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the warning, but I don't just want ONE key, I want a whole big dangley bunch of them!

[ciorstan.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good thing to whack someone with, then...*snicker* Aeddie had better watch out at Purgatorio!

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Keys as weapons.... Now I hadn't thought of that. Would that qualify me for the heavy household combat war section? ;)

And in this ring, German house wife armed with a rolling pin and house keys against .....

[aeddie.livejournal.com]

Hey now, trouts are one thing, keys are another.

As a deputy seneschal do I get to wear half a key?