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The Keeper of Lost Keys

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The Keeper of Lost Keys
Antique Victorian Keys
Keys bearing engraved coordinates rather than manufacturer numbers.

Every city has surplus architecture: spaces trapped between firewalls, bricked-over courtyards, and servant stairwells sealed during the cholera epidemics of the 1850s.

Hamish has spent forty years cataloging the locks that modern renovation forgot. "If you lose a key," he says, "it does not cease to turn something."

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