The Padlock Collector; Illustrations and Prices of 350 Padlocks of the Past 100 Years

Mentone, CA: The Collector, 1973. Rev. 2d ed. Octavo in green and black pictorial stapled wraps; 60 pages; illustrations; 22 cm Very good (-); wraps are sunned at extremities; pages clean and binding tight with slightest rusting. Stapled wraps.

"Padlock collecting is probably the newest popular collecting hobbby. It is one of the oldest hobbies known, but in today's world of hobbies it is new. It is highly competitive. Unlike most other items being collected, old padlocks are scarce. [...] The second addition has added about a third more illustrated padlocks with prices and a COLLECTORS SECTION. The COLLECTORS SECTION shows a variety of padlocks without prices. They are from two to two hundred years old, some of them less common than the locks that are priced."