Collection · 1854 to 1924

Old Safe Adverts

How safe makers sold fire and burglar protection between 1850 and 1950: newspaper adverts, directory pages, posters and trade cards, each dated and traced to its maker.

26 adverts

Country
Text-only advert printing a Manchester customer's letter about a failed gunpowder attack on a Chubb safe

1854 Daring Attempt to Blow Open a Chubb’s Safe with Gunpowder Chubb · Magazine
1857 advertisement headed Provincial Salamander Fire Proof Safes, showing an open double-door safe lettered J. & J. Taylor and 65 King St. West, with the line Late of S. C. Herring's, New York

1857 Provincial Salamander Fire Proof Safes J. & J. Taylor · Directory
Upper part of a text advert for Herring's Champion fire-proof and burglar-proof safes in a trade journal

1862 Herring’s Patent Champion Fire-Proof Safes Herring-Hall-Marvin · Magazine
Advertisement printed in gold ink for Marvin and Co. fire and burglar safes, with a photograph of a decorated safe standing open, and warehouse addresses in New York, Philadelphia and Cleveland

1869 Marvin & Co. fire and burglar safes Herring-Hall-Marvin · Trade card
Newspaper advertisement headed From Chicago: a dispatch dated 21 October 1871 from D. S. Covert saying over 800 Diebold and Kienzle safes were in the great fire

1871 From Chicago: 800 safes in the great fire Diebold · Newspaper
Tall newspaper advert with two exhibition medals, an open Herring safe and a 30,000 francs banner

1872 Chicago. Herring’s Safes Herring-Hall-Marvin · Newspaper
Full-page advert showing an open Chatwood safe, an elephant trade mark and lists of prize medals

1876 Chatwood’s “Invincible” Safes Chatwood · Catalogue
1876 advertisement: Guard against fire and thieves. Samuel Withers (late George Withers and Sons), at the Original Park Works, Roebuck Street, West Bromwich, manufacturer of fire, drill and wedge proof safes, with an engraving of an open safe

1876 Guard against fire and thieves Samuel Withers · Directory
Newspaper advert for Hall's Safe and Lock Co. offering new and second-hand safes in Atlanta

1876 Hall’s Safe & Lock Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio Hall's · Newspaper
1884 advertisement: George Price, sole patentee of case-hardened fire and burglar-proof safes, strong rooms and bullion chests with Ne Plus Ultra gunpowder-proof locks, prize medals 1862, 1878, 1880 and 1884, Cleveland Safe and Lock Works, Wolverhampton, 34 Queen Victoria Street, London, and 46 Corporation Street, Manchester

1884 Ne Plus Ultra gunpowder-proof locks George Price · Directory
Text advert listing Milner safes and deed boxes with prices for lawyers, jewellers and bankers

1887 Milner’s Safes Milner · Magazine
Full-page advert with a large engraving of an open Detroit Safe Co. safe and a price table

1888 Detroit Safe Co Detroit Safe Co. · Magazine
Full-page trade journal advert showing a tall open jewellers' safe with a heavy inner door

1890 Something New in Jewelers’ Safes J. & J. Taylor · Magazine
Advert with a cartoon of a couple watching men hoist a safe up a building on Maiden Lane

1894 Safes for Jewelers Mosler · Magazine
Newspaper advert headed $8.00 To Protect Your Valuables, showing a small black safe with a carrying handle and its door open, lettered Meilink's Home Deposit Vault

1902 $8.00 To Protect Your Valuables Meilink · Magazine
Bold text advert listing Ratner safes, strong-room doors and party wall doors with a Balmoral order

1902 Ratner Safes Ratner · Magazine
Yellow Bauche poster showing four safes with open doors and the words Garantit contre l'incendie, garantit contre le vol, marque Le Cuirassé

1904 Garanti contre l’incendie, garanti contre le vol Fichet-Bauche · Poster
Small boxed French advert for Bauche safes in Lyon with a drawing of a large key

1906 Coffres-Forts “Bauche” Fichet-Bauche · Directory
Typographic advert repeating Chubb's locks and Chubb's safes with three London addresses

1909 Chubb’s Locks, Chubb’s Safes Chubb · Magazine
Advert listing six reasons to buy John Tann safes beside a drawing of a treasury door

1912 John Tann’s Safes & Strong Rooms John Tann · Magazine
Advert recruiting safe salesmen with pictures of two safes and a large factory

1912 Why Not Make $200.00 a Month Victor · Magazine
Full-page 1913 advertisement for Ratner Improved Safes: all Ratner safes are bent solid and jointless at all 12 corners from one steel plate; catalogues from 51 Moorgate Street, E.C.

1913 Ratner Improved Safes, Fire & Burglars Ratner · Book
1913 advertisement: Bent steel safes, twelve-corner bent steel safes, ask for Samco list, Samuel Withers and Co., West Bromwich, and 11 Dyer's Buildings, Holborn, London, with a photograph of a safe supplied to the royal yacht Victoria and Albert

1913 Bent steel safes, ask for Samco list Samuel Withers · Magazine
Magazine advert of a Cary safe standing in flames, with cutaway drawings of door insulation

1920 The Safe That Withstands Fire Cary · Magazine
Wide advert with a photo of a round vault door beside the slogan They Shall Not Pass

1924 “They Shall Not Pass” Diebold · Magazine
Full-page advert framed by a drawing of a vault door, announcing York vaults for the Federal Reserve

1924 York Vaults York · Magazine