프랭크 카랄레스키가 1911년에 만든 door lock 인디요.
아이언, 금, 은, 카퍼로 만들었고.
백설공주와 7명의 난쟁이 동화를 묘사 한거래여.
만드는데 7년 걸렸답니ㅏㄷ.

A door lock created in 1911 by the German locksmith Frank L. Koralewsky (1872-1941). It is made of iron, gold, silver and copper, and depicts the fairy tale "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".

Frank L. Koralewsky served as a traditional ironworker’s apprentice in his native north-German town of Stralsund. After obtaining journeyman status, he worked in various German shops before immigrating to Boston in the mid- 1890s. By 1906 he was a member of the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts, specializing in locksmithing and hardware.

This extremely intricate lock, which took seven years to complete, exemplifies the early 20th Century taste for sentimental medievalism and represents the pinnacle of the metalworking tradition at the turn of the 20th Century.

Exhibited at 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, where it won a gold medal, the lock illustrates Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s fairy tale “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”

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