A Puzzle to Solve: Antique G & J Gem NY Lock Co. Barrel Lock with Numbered Disks paper cutouts I never know with these

I never know with these miniatures whether they were made as models or salesman samples or for dollhouses or what

these two gents have spent many decades together

this is an early 20th-century British watercolor of Wall Pennywort

before returning to Sweden in 1953

There is a piece of brass hardware on one side that could have been a later addition to prevent the cheat

A Puzzle to Solve: Antique G & J Gem NY Lock Co. Barrel Lock with Numbered Disks paper cutouts I never know with theseSince 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