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    Default Bank Vault Postcards

    Not collected these myself but have seen many over the years and having trawled this one up a while back it got me thinking of the others I'd seen around.

    Many have a charm that seems to overcome any artistic license or technical inaccuracies while perfectly capturing the splendour and nostalgia of the era.

    I'll start things off with this one

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    So, feel free to post any of these old cards here...

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    A Lovely Lady!

    Never seen a safe/vault postcard.

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    Compare this one with the first. It looks like the same artwork was used for the two different banks with some changes.

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    Two postcards of the same vault, open and closed. It looks like an automatic Hollar. Notice the topmost finial may have been cut short to clear the ceiling trim.

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    A couple of comparatively contemporary cards.

    The first one is from North Kansas City, The National Bank, circa 1962. The second is from Lynwood, California, and seems to have been scanned with extra color contrast (other images of other copies are not as bold).

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    Farmers State Bank, Middletown, Indiana. I don't own the actual postcard but it seems to look like two photographic prints were glued to card stock then hand-lettered?

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    German American Trust Company, Denver, Colorado. Based on the arrangement of the rack-and-pinion drive this looks like a Remington-Sherman door.

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    Here's a real old one, Banco Nacional de Cuba:

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    and one from Lips...

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    Some early vaults look like giant cubes dropped onto the floor rather than being architecturally integrated:

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