Who's a silly safeman then?
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Huw Eastwood
safeman those are lovely examples, your Carron puts mine to shame, that looks very good condition and with the original escutcheon intact too.
I think the two photos are of the same safe - just that the right hand pic has the bolts withdrawn and with the cover fitted- if you look closely it looks to be the same key and mechanism.
It's certainly a superior example though, can't remember seeing one of that level of quality,the tail bar, guides and bolt work look very precise and that double gated lever makes it impressive indeed- is it possibly an early Tann?
Huw, you're dead right - why didn't I just compare the pattern of the key?
There's every possibility that this could have been made by Tann as the original negative was in Bill Stanton's Tann archive although his photographic skills might suggest that he did not actually create the primary negative.
I'll recheck his index when I return from holiday.
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Old Church Safe/Strongbox 19th Century
Thanks to everyone who replied. The interesting thing is that as part of loading this safe on my trailer and having sprayed with penetrating oil weeks before hand and using the lid handle to slide it along - it burst open. So it wasn't locked just rusted shut. So that's the good news. Now having done that and discovered an old flower pot and not the burial records I had hoped for I have now taken the lock mechanism off the safe to try and make a key.
I will post a picture of the mechanism now so that you experts can tell me what the safe is. Its a top opening lid with 2 side handles.
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