It is annoying when somebody removes a few pence worth of brass and thus ruin a safe.
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It is annoying when somebody removes a few pence worth of brass and thus ruin a safe.
It used to annoy me when alarm fitters, in the old days, fitting the alarmed escutcheons would remove the name plate to use one of the screw holes, because they were too lazy to drill and tap a hole of their own.
As you say Mark, your pictures are difficult to interpret but despite that your Tann is a List 2a which was the most produced Tann safe having been in production from 1869 to 1900.
It was known in the factory as the MM quality referring to the fact that it was machine made.
This refers to the fact that the body was bent from a single plate of wrought iron in a horizontal plane leaving no weak joints on the corners. Wrought iron like wood has a grain and an only be bent in one direction without fracturing.
The Milner safe is probably a List 2 from about 1920. At least not all the furniture is gone.