100year old Ritz Room Key and Keyring

pelirocco

I see Ingersoll manufactored the key ,I should think they could date they key from thedesign ?

luckymoneysaver

the key could be from any period..i am more interested in the keyfob itself

pelirocco

luckymoneysaver wrote: »

the key could be from any period..i am more interested in the keyfob itself

I didnt think of that :rotfl:

DirtPoorGuy

steviebabes wrote: »

Is that a postcode on it? If so they came out in 1973.

Whilst Postcodes started to be rolled out nationally across the UK from 1959 until 1974, London had their own Postcode system that started in 1917 and was eventually incorporated in to the newer national system.

luckymoneysaver

DirtPoorGuy wrote: »

Whilst Postcodes started to be rolled out nationally across the UK from 1959 until 1974, London had their own Postcode system that started in 1917 and was eventually incorporated in to the newer national system.

aaah..thats interesting to know....looks like we are going backwards lol:beer:

soolin

Gosh, I still use hotels with keys and fobs like that.

frivolous_fay

http://www.independent.co.uk/money/mortgages/a-short-history-of-the-postcode-751884.html

'The postcode in its present form as a mixture of six letters and digits, was first used in Norwich in October, 1959.'

'The earliest form of postcode was introduced in London in 1857. Sir Rowland Hill, the inventor of the penny post, divided London into districts denoted by compass points, 'N' for north, 'S' for south and so on....
Numbers were added to the London postal districts to divide them up more specifically into NW1, SW2 etc during the First World War, in 1916.'

Suggests the early London postcodes were only 3 digits.

Aputsiaq

Its not very old because of a couple of things.
Postcodes (relatively new)
and the giving of keys to customers of hotels (relatively new)

DaveAshton

The_Prodigal_Son wrote: »

HELLOOOOO TO ALL THE BARGIAN HUNTERS - CHEAP AS CHIPS :cool:

What's a "bargian"? Is it a canal boat that belongs to a bloke called Ian?