A Puzzle to Solve: Antique G & J Gem NY Lock Co. Barrel Lock with Numbered Disks paper cutouts and a faint penciled number

and a faint penciled number at the corner of each suggests they were likely part of a larger series (one sees similar numbering on antique watercolors of flowers

I am not at all an expert

or maybe never was

before returning to Sweden in 1953

A Puzzle to Solve: Antique G & J Gem NY Lock Co. Barrel Lock with Numbered Disks paper cutouts and a faint penciled numberSince finding an antique brass barrel type lock with rotating disk letters, I've kept an eye for others this is not that, iron steel rather than brass, and with numbers rather than letters, but still. I do not have the combination, so it is also a puzzle to be solved! (I also think that locks make nice valentines!) The numbered disks at the far ends are fixed; it is the three center disks that turn. Made by G&J Gem Lock Company, NY, late 19th c. or