Are we fools? Or eccentrics
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Originally Posted by
00247
Nice to see I'm not the only fool restoring old safes. It is always a daunting time once they are in their naked glory and now the reconstruction work begins. Keep posting pictures of your progress.
Although I am perhaps the last person to be politically correct, I think in England we tend to think of those following a different path as eccentrics. I will indeed keep posting, until the end - well hopefully so.
I actually wanted a safe, for good reasons, but it had to be one that was a little bit special, and I am confident this "City Safe" is definitely of that class. No one else seems to have seen its like, and nothing on the internet covers it either.
But eccentric of whatever, there is a lot of satisfaction in bringing something back to its former glory and use, and from what I have seen many of these old safes are sought after these days irrespective of insurance companies condemning them.
Thanks, interesting to see
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Originally Posted by
safeman
Steve, I hope that you are now well on the road to recovery.
Purely for interests sake I am attaching a picture of what appears to be a heavier bodied version of a Whitfield of a similar age.
Attachment 19860 I regret that I have no further information than this and I cannot even remember from where I copied it. From the tenon joints it appears to have body plates about ½ inch thick.
That is certainly different and heavier, mine is without doubt boiler plate on the outer skin and about five sixteenths of an inch thick, but with heavier framing that does appear to be wrought iron. Oh and a whole bevy of rivets. I still find this type of construction to be out of keeping perhaps with 1885 it simply strikes me as an earlier form of construction based on so many things I have worked on and seen over the years.
Thanks for posting your photo though, all these things help to build a picture. I suppose too that even if there were advances in technology not all companies were up to date in their methods or able to achieve them due to financial constraints.
Steve.