Philadelphia Wilmington Baltimore Railroad Lock PW&B RR Brass Railway Padlock RY

Description

Up for sale is a solid brass railroad switch lock for the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad.  This lock is a rare Gibson & Kirk Company padlock, made in the 1800's.  PW&B RR is marked on the front left face with the Gibson & Kirk logo on the right face.  This lock is missing the key hole cover but the lock is operational.
The lock is operational and unlocks/locks normally but the key is not included in the bid, this is for the brass padlock only.
Overall, a very tough find and will add well to any collection.
I have other obsolete brass and antique steel railroad and logo padlocks made by Corbin, Adlake, Slaymaker, Slaight of New Jersey, Sherburne, MM Buck, Miller Company, Fraim, OM Edwards, Loeffelholz of Milwaukee, Union Brass Manufacturing of Chicago, Y&T, Yale, Wilson Bohannan, Adams & Westlake, Ritchie & Son, and Handlan.  I will combine shipping costs on multiple item winners.
from wiki:
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad
(PW&B) was an
American
railroad company itself a result of merger of four small lines dating from the earliest days of American railroading in the late 1820s and early 1830s, that operated from 1836, until being bought by a larger regional line in 1881, with a merger into a longer
Northeast Corridor
railway in 1902. It built the first rail line south from
Philadelphia
into
The South
.
Founded in 1831 as the
Philadelphia and Delaware County Rail-Road Company
, the PW&B had within six years changed its name and merged with three other state-chartered railroads in three
Middle Atlantic states
to create a single line between
Philadelphia
and
Baltimore
. In 1881, the PW&B came under the control of the
Pennsylvania Railroad
(PRR), the larger one of then two dominant rail line companies in the Northeast United States. An 1895 historian of the PRR had this to say about the significance of the PW&B, which it had acquired and gained control of fourteen years before:
In 1902, the PW&B was merged into the PRR's owned and newly merged
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad
.