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UP FOR AUCTION IS A COLLECTOR'S DREAM. IT IS AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE, GENUINE, 100% ORIGINAL PINKERTON'S DETECTIVE AGENCY LOCK AND KEY FROM THE LATE 1800'S. THE PINKERTON'S DETECTIVE AGENCY established in the United States by Allan Pinkerton in 1850 and currently a subsidiary of Securitas AB . Pinkerton became famous when he claimed to have foiled a plot to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln , who later hired Pinkerton agents for his personal security during the Civil War . Pinkerton's agents performed services ranging from security guarding to private military contracting work. Pinkerton was the largest private law enforcement organization in the world at the height of its power.THIS LATE 1800'S ORIGINAL PINKERTON'S DETECTIVE AGENCY LOCK AND KEY WAS ACQUIRED IN AN ESTATE SALE IN PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA AT ROYAL YORK AUCTION GALLERY ON JANUARY 21ST OF THIS YEAR.. IT WAS PART OF A LARGE ESTATE BELONGING TO A RETIRED WOMAN NAMED ANNA FORESS. HER HUSBAND'S BROTHER WORKED FOR THE AGENCY IN THE EARLY 1900'S.. WHEN THEY CHANGED OVER THE LOCKS IN THE 1900'S HE KEPT IT.. IT IS BEYOND RARE, AND VERY HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER BY COLLECTOR'S.. YOU CAN LOOK LONG AND HARD AND YOU'LL NEVER FIND IT'S EQUAL. HERE IS YOUR CHANCE TO OWN A PIECE OF HISTORY..PLEASE MAKE US YOUR BEST OFFER, WE WILL ACCEPT ANY REASONABLE OFFERDuring the labor strikes of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, businessmen hired the Pinkerton Agency to infiltrate unions , supply guards, keep strikers and suspected unionists out of factories, and recruit goon squads to intimidate workers. One such confrontation was the Homestead Strike of 1892, in which Pinkerton agents were called in to reinforce the strikebreaking measures of industrialist Henry Clay Frick , acting on behalf of Andrew Carnegie . The ensuing battle between Pinkerton agents and striking workers led to the deaths of seven Pinkerton agents and nine steelworkers. [5] The Pinkertons were also used as guards in coal, iron, and lumber disputes in Illinois , Michigan , New York , Pennsylvania , and West Virginia as well as the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 and the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921. The organization was pejoratively called the "Pinks" by its opponents.The company now operates as "Pinkerton Consulting & Investigations, Inc. d.b.a. Pinkerton Corporate Risk Management", a division of the Swedish security company Securitas AB. The former Government Services division, PGS, now operates as Securitas Critical Infrastructure Services, Inc.OriginsIn the 1850s, Allan Pinkerton met Chicago attorney Edward Rucker in a local Masonic Hall and formed the North-Western Police Agency, later known as the Pinkerton Agency.Historian Frank Morn writes: "By the mid-1850s a few businessmen saw the need for greater control over their employees; their solution was to sponsor a private detective system. In February 1855, Allan Pinkerton, after consulting with six midwestern railroads, created such an agency in Chicago."Government work Pinkerton guards escort strikebreakers in Buchtel, Ohio , 1884In 1871, Congress appropriated $50,000 to the new Department of Justice (DOJ) to form a suborganization devoted to "the detection and prosecution of those guilty of violating federal law." The amount was insufficient for the DOJ to fashion an integral investigating unit, so the DOJ contracted out the services to the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.However, since passage of the Anti-Pinkerton Act in 1893, federal law has stated that an "individual employed by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, or similar organization, may not be employed by the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia."Chicago "Special Officers" and watchmen July 27, 1877: J.J. White, who had been hired as a "Special Officer" during a strike, was shot and killed. [13] July 19, 1919: Hans Rassmuson, Special Officer, was shot and killed. March 12, 1924: Frank Miller, Pinkerton Watchman, was shot and killed. Molly Maguires Main article: Molly MaguiresIn the 1... read more

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