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I have a couple of old silver plugs too, including a 9" Kris lockback that I got way back 1973, at one of the downtown Houston pawn shops. It survived my junior high juvenile delinquent daze back then, and never was lost or confiscated. I have an 11" manual, Romo Bayonet Picklock that I got quite aw...

My 13" Romo false button.
I've had owned it for several years.

romo 1 by Jay and Imp, on Flickr

Black Hand with Gene Kelly, 1950 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041181/ Interesting film, I haven't seen it in years, Gene Kelly carries a large switchblade to go after the Black Hand members that killed his father. Betty Blue 1986 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090563/ A French Cop waves around a Stil...

Back in the early 1970s I tried to buy a green pearl handled Rizzuto during a visit across the border, but the tourist shop guy wouldn't budge on the price, so I ended up with a white pearl colored Rizzuto, that my Mom carried across the border for me.

Black Hand: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041181/ Gene Kelly in one of his few non dancing roles, as the son of a man killed by The Black Hand in old NY. Gene Kelly uses a 13 inch picklock in the film, they used to show it on the late Show back in the days when local TV ran movies late at night, inst...

My personal vice is old model airplanes. Just picked up "vintage" Aurora F4B-4 and Fokker DR-1 kits, which I will no doubt never build, for an average of $20.00 per, and cost about 69 cents each when I built them as a 10-12 year old in the early 60's. Who says there is such a thing as "common sense...

A Bad Day at Black Rock, (Spencer Tracey takes a picklock off of Ernest Borgnine)....and While the City Sleeps, another 1950's film as well.