Object data
iron
length 23 cm
Frogatt
Pair of Handcuffs
Birmingham, c. 1860 - c. 1866
Inscriptions
- inscription, on both cuffs, near the key: BEST / FROGATT / WROUGHT / 55
- inscription, on the key: 55
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-983
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
A pair of iron handcuffs linked by a couple of shackles, and a key. The lock is a simple catch, which the key pulls back by turning on a thread. Both cuffs and the key are marked ‘55’.
These handcuffs were acquired by the Inspector of Equipment for the Dutch Navy as examples of British handcuffs in 1866.1
Literature
J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 983
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Frogatt, Pair of Handcuffs, Birmingham, c. 1860 - c. 1866', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244797
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