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Hi All
I have a small collection of Safe Companies Key Rings for exchange
They are 4 x Milner ( 2 heart Shape 2 round )
1 x Chubb
1 x Ratner
I x Chatwood
1 x Griffiths the safe Man
Im interested in Key reward tags or Vintage Advertising Keyrings , anybody interested ?
John
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Seeing those reminded me all our Kromer leverpacks were supplied with those attaching the keys. Don’t seem to see that type of jump-ring these days, too expensive probably.I don’t think the Kromer’s were marked with the name like yours are though.
Hi John. How many could I have for the extremely nice Blenheim house ring? I also have these others but I can’t remember if you’ve seen them or not.
Hi Mark
The Blenheim house Ring is not something that would have a lot of interest to me ,being as its for a person rather than a company advertising their wares, the tags in your post I already have and indeed have spares .The Hobbs & Hart and square Chancery Lane tag , I would be interested in
John
Are you still after a Chancery Lane and a Hobbs ! They do turn up on eBay now and again so you’ll get hold of them eventually. I’m assuming you have the round version of the Chancery Lane one because your specific about the oblong one. If not, there is a round one on eBay at the minute. It’s been on for a while so there’s a good chance they've realised they’re asking too much. You could possibly haggle them down a bit. I’ll keep an eye open for you and give you a shout next time I see either a Hobbs or a Chancery Lane oblong one listed.
Yep still chasing a Hobbs and that Chancery Lane tag , I got the other 3 versions of the Chancery Lane including the round one that's on Ebay - Ive also got about 150 duplicate reward tags for exchange should anyone here have an interestQuote:
Originally Posted by Warren63
John
Another 3 versions of Chancery Lane! I’ve only ever seen the circular and oblong version. Would be nice to see a picture of them when you have time John. The insurance tags average from £3 to five pounds usually on eBay, so I just normally add them to my safe keys when I have a full set of them. I’ve noticed along with the different makers some people actually collect them with the different place names too. Some of the old bone and cellulose tags are interesting too. Have you been collecting the advertising ones for long? Do you have a large collection?
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Originally Posted by Warren63
Yes collecting them for nearly 25 years now and have about 350 different UK ones , Chancery Lane have 2 different round tags - different wording , and 2 different oblong tags, see attached photos ,my collection dates from 1890's to 1930's , I do know another collector that has a collection of about 700 so Ive a long way to go to catch him
So is the other round Chancery Lane a thin dog tag type ? I think the reason the Hobbs ones are less common is because the were actually putting the reward tag as part of the bow and adding the number to the key. How many different Chubb tags do you have then John? These are all the actual tags I have other than about half a dozen of the ring type your wanting a swap for.
2 round Chancery lane tags are very similar except the wording is slightly different, have to confess Ive never seen a reward offered on an actual key before , I have about 12 Chubb tags , some Milner and a couple of ChatwoodQuote:
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Another couple of Keyrings from my collection - safe related
Do you have anything relating to Dutch safe Co LIPS in London.? I acquired this plaque earlier in the year and can’t find anything about an address or office in London. I would love to see your Chubb tags too John, when you have time. There were quite a few addresses relating to their works and offices, but I only have ever seen safe plaques with the Queen Victoria’s and St. Paul’s addresses on.
Just got the Lips Keyring recently and no nothing else about them , nice to know that they have a London connection , attached some Chubb photos
Some more
A selection of advertising Keyrings for exchange-
Collar maker Welch & Margetson & Co London & Londonderry
Prevention s better than cure
Amalgamated key
Provident
Lodge Plugs
You’ve got some really nice ones there John! I quite like style of the later ones that are embossed. And you have all the different addresses too. Nice to see the rewards going upwards as well. Re your LIPS ring:- Chubb actually bought the company eventually. I Can’t remember when exactly but sometime between 1950s and 70s. You have a really nice collection by the looks of it. The safe company ones are quite few and far between nowadays. Do you specifically collect safe makers key tags? I think they used to make anywhere between £15 and £30 a few years ago, but you have some really rare ones among them so the sky’s the limit. Once a collector sets his mind on something, well we both know the feeling, being collectors ourselves. I’ve sort of stopped collecting the keys and tags nowadays and concentrate more on safe plaques. I really wish we both had something to swap (plaques) for the two tags I have, because I would really like them to go to yourself . Do you have any Edwin Cotterill ones? At some point soon I’m going to start selling off my keys on eBay because if I croak it there’s a high chance my daughters will sell them on again for next to nothing. My original intention was to display my safe plaques on the walls and put the keys and tags below each corresponding maker, but I now have all the plaques laying under my bed and I’m waiting for the ceiling downstairs to come through if I don’t display them soon 😀.
I actually have very few reward tags associated with Safe Companies ,maybe 100 or so connected to Scottish National Key Registry & British Key & Property Co - 2 biggest producers , Ive never heard of Edwin Cotterill ,safe maker ? Like yourself Im reducing my collection of other item for the same reason , so just Key Reward / Registry Tags & Antique Advertising Keyrings which hopefully one of my children will find interesting , I never did have any safe plaques but over the years I seem to have amassed a lot of different keys - most likely bought as part of a lot on Ebay just to get a reward tag , problem with selling them is the weight and postage costs ,should have stuck with stamps lol
It was a sales office in kingsway, I will post it over in your original Lips London thread.Quote:
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Stamps , good one 😀! Most annoying thing about buying several to get one is eBay and PayPal take a bite a 2nd time again when you try and get rid of the ones you don’t want !!! I’d probably be about £2000 better off with postage costs alone if I’d collected stamps too.Quote:
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Have these 2 for exchange