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Oldlock, I am very familiar with this lock in it's exposed lever form which was fitted to the Clydesdale Bank List 5 Branch Bank safes which they wished to make explosive resistant by the...
Dear Safeman Thank you for your interest. I have now manages to get more images of the particualr safe which I want to date. In addition I have got the dimensions of the safe which are 55 by 76...
I am looking for a key for a Yale lock case. Date 1868 to 1872.
I also seem to remember an old Chatwood with triple locking that had Aubin or Nettlefolds patent locks on it.
I have seen them and may even have some of them buried somewhere, I will post a picture if I can find one.
Thats fine - I was thinking I had been missing something for years about the standard model of lock that we all know. Anyone ever seen one ?
Maybe with extra cuts in the levers for the master key?
Anita, thanks for the information. The Withers family started making safes with the founder George in 1843. The date that your safe was made would have been around the 1880's. They made a...
S Withers Safe Badge