HFLA-SA Past, Present & Future

Steel-clad, the unique bindings were designed to

open for new pages — but opening

remained a mys tery, lost in time, until our histori an found a small hole in the steel plate, concealing a stud. A Clockmaker's tool proved to be key to history: only a clock winding key fit the stud, turn ing, 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)