Parma Antonio & Figli, Milan

[Syd Waterman]

wow- well spotted Patent! just how rare are the Isham's, is it down to only a handful of known examples?

Reference "American Genius - Most commonly made as a stand-alone lock, approximately thirty examples of Isham's Key Register lock remain".
An advert in 1868-69 for the Isham Key Register Bank Lock claims " The Stock Exchange and Safe Deposit vaults in New York City are now using 418 of this lock"
If the lock on the Williamsburgh Savings Bank vault is an Isham then add +1 to the total known.
Patent.

[Doug MacQueen]

Yes Patent, I think you have it. I compared the lock with several examples of the New Britain Isham locks in the Mossman collection. The size and markings are the same from what I can tell.

[Doug MacQueen]

Regarding that Von Philp round vault door, the odds are pretty good that it was made. No examples of it exist, to my knowledge, but rare finds of patented locks, safes and vaults keep occurring on a regular basis.

[Huw Eastwood]

'Locking Mechanism for Safe or Vault Doors' Patent 1,173,068 shows an emergency door in the center of the main vault door, notice the double crane hinge. It also uses cam wedges ILO locking bolts on both doors. Was this door ever built?

Attachment 13218 Attachment 13219

Patent: https://www.google.com/patents/US117...ed=0CB4Q6AEwAA

The cams and bolts are certainly a bit different and the door-within-the-door ridiculous, but those aspects aside, the general appearance with drive via connecting rods and the circular windows reminds me of the early Hibbard Rodman Ely doors.

[wylk]

'Locking Mechanism for Safe or Vault Doors' Patent 1,173,068 shows an emergency door in the center of the main vault door, notice the double crane hinge. It also uses cam wedges ILO locking bolts on both doors. Was this door ever built?

People who enjoyed this post may also enjoy http://www.antique-locks.com/showthr...He-Thinking-II as well as http://www.antique-locks.com/showthr...as-He-Thinking?

[wylk]

Strauss also patented a door-in-door, US 901,047:

[VaultDoors]

Here is an interesting vault door installation at a residential boat house:



Album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/canton...7649167768394/

Article: http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/i.../t-755347.html

[wylk]

Here is an interesting vault door installation at a residential boat house:

That answers a question in my "door catalog" -- At 176 Main Street, Los Altos, CA, there was a nice vault in a former Bank of the West. But there were claims it had been demolished. So now we know the door is gone and has found a new home (but where?). It also looks like the center glass was broken during the move, I hope the new owner replaces it and takes some serious rust-prevention measures.



It looks like a late Herring-Hall-Marvin door. This image could make a nice Windows desktop.

[David Hovey]

That answers a question in my "door catalog" -- At 176 Main Street, Los Altos, CA, there was a nice vault in a former Bank of the West. But there were claims it had been demolished.
It also looks like the center glass was broken during the move, I hope the new owner replaces it and takes some serious rust-prevention measures.



It looks like a late Herring-Hall-Marvin door. This image could make a nice Windows desktop.

So now we know the door is gone and has found a new home (but where?).
Madison Wisconsin. Lake Mendota


DH

[VaultDoors]

Was this door ever built?]

Well, maybe not this exact door but...I just found an emergency door inside a vault door at The Vault Cafe in Phoenix, AZ. I'll go there next week for lunch and see if I can get some pics of the other side of the door: