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Safes Collection

Background imageSafes Collection: Ratner patent safe, fire and fall resisting, Grade 1

Ratner patent safe, fire and fall resisting, Grade 1, Size MP, with details and measurements. Date: circa 1920s

Background imageSafes Collection: Bank Vault

Bank Vault
The Diebold Safe & Lock Co. Vault at The New Britain Trust Co. Bank Vault

Background imageSafes Collection: Bank Vault

Bank Vault
The Diebold Safe & Lock Co. Vault in The Bank of Montreal, New York. Bank Vault

Background imageSafes Collection: Ratner fire-resisting safes and wall safes

Ratner fire-resisting safes and wall safes
Ratner light fire-resisting safes, and wall safes, with details and measurements. Date: circa 1920s

Background imageSafes Collection: Safety Deposit Vault

Safety Deposit Vault
Merchantile Safe Deposit Co. 120 Broadway, c. 1904. Safety deposit vault with mosaic tile floor flanked by banks of safe deposit boxes

Background imageSafes Collection: Ratner wooden safe stands

Ratner wooden safe stands - box, frame, drawer and cupboard. Date: circa 1920s

Background imageSafes Collection: Ratner patent extra strong safe, fire and fall resisting

Ratner patent extra strong safe, fire and fall resisting, Grade 2, with details and measurements. Date: circa 1920s

Background imageSafes Collection: Ratner patent safe, fire and fall resisting, for registrars

Ratner patent safe, fire and fall resisting, for registrars, Size No. 5, with details and measurements. Date: circa 1920s

Background imageSafes Collection: Bank door transportation

Bank door transportation
Safes, Bankers Trust Co. Vaults. Team of horses pulling a vault door on Broad Street at Pearl Street, presumably on its way to the Bankers Trust Co. for installation; sign of rig reads: EMERGENCY DOOR

Background imageSafes Collection: Ratner branch bank strong room door, drill proof and blowpipe resisting. Date: circa 1920s

Ratner branch bank strong room door, drill proof and blowpipe resisting. Date: circa 1920s

Background imageSafes Collection: Ratner strong room door, No. 6, banker's patent steel door with grip frame and ventilating grille

Ratner strong room door, No. 6, banker's patent steel door with grip frame and ventilating grille. Date: circa 1920s

Background imageSafes Collection: Ratner strong room door, No. 3, fire-resisting with lobby and grille. Date: circa 1920s

Ratner strong room door, No. 3, fire-resisting with lobby and grille. Date: circa 1920s

Background imageSafes Collection: Millionaire Starves Trade Money Safes 1938 Greek

Millionaire Starves Trade Money Safes 1938 Greek
millionaire, starves, trade, money, safes, 1938, greek, found, dead, galveston, texas, locked, safe, accident, may, many, things, won, feed, won't, history, historical, 10097529

Background imageSafes Collection: Advert, wrought-iron fireproof safes and deed boxes

Advert, wrought-iron fireproof safes and deed boxes
Advert, wrought-iron fireproof safes, deed boxes and cash boxes. 1854

Background imageSafes Collection: Ratner patent anti-blowpipe safe

Ratner patent anti-blowpipe safe, A Type, with details and measurements. Date: circa 1920s

Background imageSafes Collection: Photographs of sub-standard safes -- Not Ratner

Photographs of sub-standard safes -- Not Ratner. Showing safes which were too easy to break into, or were not fireproof, compared with the superior quality of Ratner safes. Date: circa 1920s

Background imageSafes Collection: A HUGE SAFE

A HUGE SAFE
A banker with a bunch of keys puts a tin of jewellery among safety deposit boxes, accounts books and other precious items, into a huge safe with an intricate door mechanism. Date: 1930s

Background imageSafes Collection: SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES

SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES
Safe-deposit boxes at the Dresdner Bank, Berlin Date: circa 1900

Background imageSafes Collection: Safe deposits for the valuables of passengers on Queen Mary

Safe deposits for the valuables of passengers on Queen Mary
The unique provision of safe deposits for the valuables of passengers on board the Queen Mary ocean liner. The problem of protecting valuables at sea solved by providing a passengers strong room

Background imageSafes Collection: Russia / 1917 / Bank Safes

Russia / 1917 / Bank Safes
Bolsheviks inspect safe deposits in a bank. Date: 1917 - 1918

Background imageSafes Collection: Queen Mary ocean liner: Purified air; safe deposits

Queen Mary ocean liner: Purified air; safe deposits
An unrivalled system of air-conditioning for the main public rooms on board the Queen Mary ocean liner; And the unique provision of safe deposits for the valuables of passagers. Date: 1936

Background imageSafes Collection: Stronghold at the Chancery Lane Safe Deposit, London, 1891

Stronghold at the Chancery Lane Safe Deposit, London, 1891
Engraving showing one of the strong rooms, fitted with safes, at the Chancery Lane Safe Deposit in Chancery Lane, London, in 1891. 1891

Background imageSafes Collection: Safe by Carl Ade C1900

Safe by Carl Ade C1900
A safe designed by Carl Ade Date: circa 1900



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