Antique Safes/Experts
| Expert | Average Ratings | Expertise |
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Mike PalmerU.K.
Available
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I earn my living identifying safes and suggesting cash limits for risk advisors and insurance surveyors in the UK. I'm not able to comment on safes made in the USA but will be happy to take questions on all major British and European manufacturers. | |
Tom GordonU.K.
Available
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UK lock, physical security and safes with worldclass collections of safe plaques and Chatwood items. I do NOT have expert knowledge of American safes. | |
Terry V Andreasen (Andy)U.S.
Available
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Safe and Vault related Questions; Antique Safe Repair and Restoration; With over 38 years in the Safe & Vault industry, if I can't answer your question I know where to get the answer. Current Project: Restoration of two Tilton & McFarland Safes from the 1860's. Will answer Safe & Vault related questions concerning age, value, restoration, moving, opening & repairing, parts, operation and history. Note: It is not my intention to teach you to open safes or to provide information which may aid in the unlawful opening of a safe. I will not give out drill points or information which I deem inappropriate. |
Recent Answers
2012-02-09 Victor (Sperry) Safe:
Janine, Ooooops, my bad, I must have read right over the "lost" when I was reading the post originally, and assumed that when you indicated you had tried to get the key that you had copied, that you
2012-02-09 Old tear gas lock:
Jorge, As long as the tear gas vials have been removed, it shouldn't be a problem, and if you leave it on the door, I think it would be a great "warning" deterent to people thinking about breaking in
2012-02-09 antique safe:
Scott, No the date on the dial is a patent date for the lock, and does NOT reflect when the lock was installed. All this indicates is that the safe could NOT possibly have been built prior to the issuance
2012-02-09 safe manufacturer ?:
Michael, I will need the serial number off the safe to come up with an approximate date of manufacture. Knowing the TYPE of lock will give us an approximate time frame that the LOCK was used, which
2012-02-08 Victor (Sperry) Safe:
Janine, They may have indicated, or meant that it was "TOO WORN" when they said too old. My recommendation would be to take the key AND lock to a local locksmith shop to have them fabricate a NEW,
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