Look out for the “Blood Rock” movie, featuring our antique handcuffs and iron shackles

We just shipped out an order today for our antique handcuffs as well as our ankle and/or wrist iron shackles. They are shooting the scene with these items THIS FRIDAY. How cool is that? Watch the trailer for the film, "Blood Rock."  Tell us what our items look like on the big screen when the movie is released by posting a comment here.

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Torture dungeon – White Tower, The Tower of London

White Tower: Torture in the Dungeon

Within a castle complex the "dungeon" serves as the prison area. A dungeon (a term that evolved from the Norman word donjon) was located in the basement, or lowest level, of a keep and was normally used as a prison. In architecture, the most fortified area and the heart of a medieval castle was referred to as a "keep." Gundolf, Bishop of Rochester (d. 1108), is thought to be the original architect for this layout when he had the White Tower (Tower of London) built. Gundolf, Bishop of Rochester (d. 1108), is thought to be the original architect for this layout when he had the White Tower (Tower of London) built. A Norman keep is typically a very large square tower. Wells were often cleverly concealed within the medieval keep in a thick pillar or wall. Read the rest of this entry »

The history of prison an 18th century dungeon

18th Century Dungeon

The word prison comes from the French derivation comes from the Latin word prehensio, which means seizure. It is defined as a location in which to hold people who have been convicted of a crime by the reigning legal authority to spend their sentence. The primary goal of imprisonment in its infancy was to make sure that the accused would make his trial and appear before the judges, and to serve his due punishment. Their first uses were objectively morally dubious, as they typically housed those whom whatever tyrant who ruled at the time deemed in opposition to his direct authority; either that, or were thought by a benevolent government to serve the greater good of the people it governed, or so theiy thought. Read the rest of this entry »

Manacles, chain shackles, and handcuffs

Shackles are tools that are used to fasten together a prisoner’s feet or hands, or to punish someone. They used to be called shackbolts, swivels, gyves, and manacles. Until recently, the only two handcuffs that were around were the ones that look like figure-eights, which allow for the hands to be bound closely in front or in back of the prisoner, or the handcuffs that consist of rings connected by a chain, like the kind of handcuffs that police offers have. But recent advances have been made to the handcuff. New handcuffs are not as heavy, and because they can adjust, a police officer can use one pair to fit any prisoner. Read the rest of this entry »

Antique style key locks and skeleton keys

Skeleton Keys and Antique Locks

A lock is a type of fastener that usually consists of a bolt held in place by a series of movable parts; this bolt can only be moved when certain condition s are met, such as the insertion of a key, or a mechanism is arranged to reflect a particular series of figures, letters or signs. The following article is about this kind of lock. Read the rest of this entry »