Here is the promised photo, dated January 1936, from the Hauschild Collection, Hannover, whose negatives were unfortunately almost completely destroyed in a bombing raid.
I can't get the collection box in more detail, the photo doesn't give more.
But you can see that this version had no padlock. I think I can see that the cord was wound over the metal tongues and then sealed.
The inscription reads: Winter-Hilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes WHW. Note: The swastika is on one arm, as usual.
The red cans, on the other hand, which one still seems to find amazingly often, apparently really did have a padlock.
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