Thread: Lots of British Safe Plaques - leave a comment

More Plaques from my collection.

The Thomas Perry safe was sold to a small jeweller. To save money he delivered it himself by borrowing our pallet truck and trundling it through the town centre to his shop. On arrival he and his assistant attempted to lift it up one step and it fell over - can't imagine how - or where - the shop was only 8 feet by 12. Anyway, they survived and brought the truck back.

My Milners plaques. The 212 on the Milners plaques refers to the boiling point of water in Fahrenheit. Ah...you may say...

I hope others will be able to download pictures of their plaques onto this post. Resize them to about 700 pixels wide for all to view. If you are not familiar with resizing your pictures you can email them to me and I will be pleased to group them or post them on your behalf.

some more of my plaques

Nice plates!!

Hey, thanks Joe. 548 veiwings and you are the first person to leave a comment. Thanks again.

Would be nice to know what people think even if it's just 'pity you didn't get them square on the page'

I intended improving the photos in the future but it is very time consuming.

Cheers from sunny Cambridgeshire.

it is difficult to make comments sometimes. They are nice pictures and nice plates and you even have three that I don't have myself.
The good thing about safe plate collecting is that you can easily find more that you do not have (however many you already have in your collection).
How many UK plates does everyone think would constitute a fairly complete collection?
cheers
Old Tom

Hi Tom

Hope it's been nice down you way too today.

How many different plaques do you think were made? Each maker had many versions. Lots of makers went out of business but I don't know how many different ones there are - must be a couple of hundred? How many do you have? I admit I've not counted mine, probably 30 max.

Anyway, I read you were the worlds largest collector. That can't be right I'm 6'3". Post a few pics.

Cheers,

Richard

Richard - it has taken me all this time to overcome my jealousy and post a reply :-) Of course - your collection is impressive and I love the photos, one or two of them in particular.

I'm on the search for a couple of Milner safe plates (like your Milner Varn one). However - the two I am replacing had different wording on them: one says "improved for the government registry 1849", and the other "improved for the government registry & courts 1857".

Can anyone tell me why two plates from the same safe would differ - or most likely was one a later replacement? Any other info also appreciated.

Keep posting any extra's you have Richard - they are great reference points and very much appreciated. Thanks for sharing :-)


Cheers Sarah