Scarce* Victorian Hiatt ‘Irish 8’ Handcuffs. PO 108. Scarce* Victorian Hiatt ‘Irish 8’ Handcuffs. PO 108. Miscellaneous

The Irish 8 being a sought after handcuff. The Darby spring-backed bolt with external threading is pulled out with the internally threaded screw key. These cuffs are so called as they form a figure of eight and were used primarily in Ireland. The origins of Hiatt and Company Ltd. lie in the late eighteenth century, circa 1780, and made handcuffs, leg-irons, manacles and other devices to shackle humans for more than 200 years. In 1818 Thomas Griffin Hiatt appears in the Wrightson Directory for the first time as a manufacturer of felon's irons and gate locks, located on Moor St. in Birmingham. Sometime in the next few years Hiatt moved around the corner to 26 Masshouse Lane, where he manufactured felon's irons, gate lock, handcuffs, and horse and dog collars. The Hiatt Company remained at the 26 Masshouse Lane address, until the premises were destroyed by a World War II German bombing in 1941. The company shut its doors for the last time at its Birmingham workshops in 2008. This example has lost the majority of its coating and now has a light rust coloured patina. The key has the number 107 printed to the outer edge of the turn *slight buckle to the turn*. The cuffs work as they should. The price includes UK delivery. PO 108.