Safe Plates

[yankeeron]

A friend has just obtained, from a deceased relative, a collection of brass name plates from various items of machinery. In the collection are some Safe Makers Plates. Can anyone tell me if there is a collectors club in the U.K. where he could sell them on? If not he said he will put them on Ebay.
I have just looked on a collectors site based in Germany, which shows pictures of Safe Plates. In my friends collection there are at least two plates, from RATNERS and JOHN LOWE which this site isn't showing So I would think they may be pretty rare???

[Dean Nickel]

I know very little of safe plates but we DO have a for sale section as well as this section. You could post some pictures of the plates in this forum or post and find out what is know about these items and if you like sell them after that.

[Tom Gordon]

I, on the other hand, have probably the largest collection of safeplates in the world.
Pictures are vital to say anything but please put a ruler in each picture -one tip is that scanning them gives a remarkably good image on almost all scanners.
Cheers
Tom

[yankeeron]

I, on the other hand, have probably the largest collection of safeplates in the world.
Pictures are vital to say anything but please put a ruler in each picture -one tip is that scanning them gives a remarkably good image on almost all scanners.
Cheers
Tom

Hi Tom do you want me to send the scans to you? or put them on the site? If you want me to send the scans direct to the web site How do I do it?

[Dean Nickel]

http://www.antique-locks.com/whats-n...our-posts.html
Follow the link to find out how to upload pictures.

[yankeeron]

Here are the photographs of the Safe Plates I mentioned in an earlier post

[Tom Gordon]

The top one is very unusual - I havent seen one with fixings like that before.
I wondered whether it was off a safe or off a display from the period, but the quality is too low for that I would have thought.
As the quality of casting is low I wondered if it was off some sort of knock-off safe, but who would knock-off a Grove?
Old and unusual.

[yankeeron]

Hi Tom If you are interested in it, for your collection. Do you want to make me an offer for it?

[Tom Gordon]

Thanks but, having thought about it, it probably had two lower fixings removed at some time.
Cheers
Tom

[yankeeron]

Thanks but, having thought about it, it probably had two lower fixings removed at some time.
Cheers
Tom

Hi Tom No problem, but just given it a good examination and there is no signs that it had two more fixings at the bottom.