Steel-clad, the unique bindings were designed to open for new pages — but opening remained a mystery, lost in time, until our historian found a small hole in the steel plate, concealing a stud. A Clockmaker's tool proved to be key to history: only a clockwinding key fit the stud, turning, allowing the Books to open for the first time since 2006. This permitted the high resolution scans used on this website. To see “the key to history” in action, click the video on left)
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