Five Hundred Views!

Thanks to you, I'm happy to say that my blog has had 500 views now. 

UPDATED 8/24, over 4,000 views! 

This is certainly a niche hobby, and an unusual sort of collection. These are objects most people will never see, or even think about. Some people may consider such items with a bit of disdain, if they think of them at all. 

Then there are others of us who find the sight of a collection display board with myriad different types of restraints as art, or a tangled pile of cuffs and shackles to be a curious and fascinating sight to behold. 

Some of us collect because history itself is evident, physically tangible in these designs. Some of us appreciate the intricate, clockwork-like mechanisms which still function a century or more after they were made. 

Some of us have a background in Law Enforcement, which of course is the original and true purpose of these items. Some of us are experienced metalworkers, and have a deep professional appreciation of the quality machining, finishing, and materials engineering seen in these examples. Some of us find these inanimate objects, or the experience of being subjected to them, to be somehow inescapably erotic, and repurpose them as fetishes for sensual/recreational use. Some of us are Escape Artists, following the inspiration of Houdini, finding our own ways to attempt to escape that which was meant to be inescapable. 

Curios, artifacts, toys, torture devices, tools... Whatever you consider them to be, many of these could be displayed in any number of museums; civil war, police, history, military, prison, living history, etcetera.

I hope soon to have the time to work on the "Pages" portion of my blog. There have been enough items passing through eBay that I've been busy with those, but the engagement encourages me to work on more. Thank you for visiting. 

I've been working on the pages section a lot and hope you all have been around to check it out as well.