The Biddle Key

Clum Manufacturing produced automobile ignition switches with several different types of keys. One of the rarest keys produced was for the Biddle automobile. Although I have an ignition switch, the only key which I have is one that I made for the switch.The Biddle key has been the primary object of my ebay searches for the past several years. 

A few months ago, while searching ebay, I ran across several groups of keys which appeared to have been new old stock and were offered as buy-it-now. About an hour later I was thumbing through an old Keil key catalog and I saw the Keil version of the Biddle key (slightly different shaped key head). I immediately recognized it as being included in one of the key groupings on ebay which I had just been viewing. By the time I got back to ebay, the grouping was gone, obviously purchased already. What a major disappointment.

Last week I was surprised to find another grouping of new old stock keys on ebay, with not one, but two Biddle keys included. This time I was successful in obtaining them, though not cheaply. I received the keys in the mail today.