New purchase: Chatwood safe

[Harrishawk]

Lock is clean and I polished the levers. So it runs very smooth. Key is also ready!
So job done. Only to polish the outside and I have a nice safe.

[Tom Gordon]

Lock is clean and I polished the levers. So it runs very smooth. Key is also ready!
So job done. Only to polish the outside and I have a nice safe.

Very good condition paint!
i don’t have my references handy but about 1890

[Huw Eastwood]

Now that's a nice looking safe, looks beautiful condition and makes that Mosler you picked up look like a 1950s refrigerator!

[Harrishawk]

Lol Huw! But I still like my refrigerator

Chatwood is done. Polished with antique wax but the brass still with patina.

Two keys and ready for his place in this house

[Huw Eastwood]

Well done that's a lovely sheen from the wax, and an original example like that wins every time for me over the blinged-out over done restorations- that's beautiful !

I remember you are not a stranger to hands on precision stuff and you do a lot of lathe and mill work making fine pens but even so, cutting your own keys from blanks to a Chatwood lock is quite an achievement so well done all round, big pat on back and weekend beers well earned !