Unfortunately, I don't know a whole lot about it.

I'm told this is Soviet in origin, which is what I would have guessed just by looking at it.

We have a stamp steal key that was common in the USSR, particularly prior to the 19 seventies.

Then there is the laughably bad machine work that was also common in the Soviet Union during that time period.

The choice of materials is about what I'd expect.

But what I didn't expect was the lettering.

If this was Soviet in origin, the Latin letters would be unusual.

But they could point to an origin in the country with the native language that used a Latin out the bet somewhere like Lithuania, which was known to make a fair number of padlocks.

The final issue is the lack of a price stamped anywhere in the lock body.

That was something nearly universal in the Soviet Union.

But of course there were exceptions.

So that's my long way of saying I don't know too much about this.

But what caught my eye was the unusual mechanism and the unusual key.

The key has four arms that stick out from the side.

They go into the side of the padlock and press down on rods with notches in them.

Those rods air spring loaded, and when you press down on the key, it aligns all those notches with the shackle and the lock will open.

Now picking this is not terribly tricky.

You just need to pull on the shackle while nudging those rods into position.

You don't even need any special tools.

In fact, we are going to use a toothpick.

So let's pull on the shackle and get to picking nothing on the last nothing.

Here we go.

Little click out of to click out of one click out of four.

Nothing on three.

Another click on two and one little click on to click on one.

We're getting those rods closer to the right position each time we push on them, but it is taking a little bit of time.

There we go.

Three is finally binding, got him mostly into position, and right now we're just nudging them the final little bit of the way.

There we go.

I pulled it out and it locked up after it looks like two positions.

So what's up?

There we go.

One more click and we got it open.

So not too tricky a pic, but it can be a bit time consuming.

Even so, I like the unusual mechanism and I am very happy to have this in my collection.

In any case, that's all I have for you today.

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