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    Default CONSTABLE Premium Fire Monarch St Louis MO

    Interesting safe on eBay. Antique Safe CONSTABLE Premium Fire Monarch St Louis MO | eBay Does anyone have information on the key type/design and lock? I assume the 2nd knob is for a combination of some type?

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    Thanks for posting that. Certainly a rare one, late 1840's or more likely 50's from the lock style. There are several patented locks that it could be as the popularity of little push keys and side cut flat keys seems greatest in the 1850's. The extra knob is to operate the bolt and depending on the lock type may be used to raise the levers allowing the key to be inserted. I have found very little on Constable but do know prior to making safes in St. Louis he was in Pittsburgh in the 1840's and had a safe company known as "Constable and Burke". That company was later to become the Barnes Safe Co. Doug

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