If your safe says Price and Wolverhampton, it came from one of two rival firms in the same town: George Price of the Cleveland Works, or Cyrus Price & Co. of the Britannia Works. As far as anyone can tell they weren’t related, and the plate tells you which one you’ve got.
1855
George Price’s first safe patent, for case-hardened doors
916
pages in his 1856 treatise on safes, locks and keys
310
safes and chests in six months from the Cleveland Works, by Price’s own count
1895
Cyrus Price & Co. becomes a limited company
Key takeaways
- There were two Price safe makers in Wolverhampton: George Price (Cleveland Street, safes from about 1854) and Cyrus Price & Co. (Britannia Works, Horseley Fields and later Wednesfield Road). Collectors who’ve studied both treat them as unrelated.
- Both firms claimed 1840 as their founding year. For George Price that date belongs to his earlier printing business, not to safes.
- On a Cyrus Price safe, “Ltd” means 1895 or later. On a George Price safe, “Safe, Lock and Engineering Co. Ltd” points to 1886–1888; “Bankers Engineers” transfers are later still.
- There was no Price & Co. safe maker in Bristol that we can find. A plate reading “Price & Co.” is almost certainly Cyrus Price & Co. of Wolverhampton.
In This Article
The two Price firms at a glance
| George Price | Cyrus Price & Co. | |
|---|---|---|
| Founder | George Price (about 1819–1887), born in Bilston | Cyrus Price (died 1895) |
| Founded | “Established 1840” (his printing business); in safes from about 1854 | About 1839 (Grace’s Guide) or 1840 (the firm’s own date) |
| Works | Cleveland Safe Works, later Cleveland Safe and Lock Works, Cleveland Street, Wolverhampton | Britannia Works: Horseley Fields in the 1860s; Wednesfield Road by 1899 |
| London and other offices | 181 Fleet Street (1856); agents at 23 Moorgate Street (1862); 86 Queen Street, Cheapside (mid-1860s); 34 Queen Victoria Street and 46 Corporation Street, Manchester (1884) | Publicity mentions London, Liverpool and Dublin, without addresses |
| Company names | George Price; George Price’s Safe, Lock and Engineering Co. Ltd (1886); George Price’s Safe Co. (1914); “George Price Limited” on transfers | C. Price & Co.; Cyrus Price & Co.; Cyrus Price & Co. Ltd (from 1895) |
| Known for | Case-hardened “drill-proof” doors, “Ne Plus Ultra” gunpowder-proof locks, strong rooms, a 916-page treatise | “Holdfast”, “Champion” and 212° fire-resisting safes, detector locks, later bent steel safes |
| End | Company wound up 1888; the name traded on and was taken over by James Gibbons (1906 or the 1930s: sources differ) | Winding-up petition 1933; name still advertised in 1938; later claimed by Guardian Safes and Insafe |
Sources for the table: Grace’s Guide, Price’s own treatise and price list, the 1862 exhibition catalogue, the London Gazette and the Wolverhampton lock makers’ gazetteer, all cited in the sections below.1,2
Two Price firms, one town
Wolverhampton was lock country long before it was safe country. In 1856 George Price wrote that wrought-iron safes had been a London trade until about twenty years earlier, when “several locksmiths in the vicinity of Wolverhampton” and mechanics at Sedgley and West Bromwich started making them.3 By the 1860s the town had two safe makers called Price, and they’ve been confused ever since.
we couldn’t find a family link between them, and nor could the people who know these firms best. A safe engineer posting as “safeman” wrote in 2015 that “there is no connection between the two companies”, and added that both firms underlined their first names in adverts to keep them apart.4 The Wolverhampton lock makers’ gazetteer says the same about the underlining.5 George was the son of a Bilston printer, Joseph Price; we found nothing on Cyrus’s family beyond a co-patentee called Elihu Price.6,7
Timeline
- 1840 George Price starts as a printer and stationer; Cyrus Price’s firm later dates itself to this year.
- 1854 George Price, now running a safe works in Cleveland Street, stages his first public fire test. It fails.
- 1855 George Price’s safe patent of 31 January (case-hardening, powder-proof lock chambers) is sealed after Milner opposes it.
- 1856 George Price publishes his Treatise on Fire and Thief-proof Depositories and Locks and Keys.
- 1860 Cyrus Price patents “improvements in locks and latches”.
- 1862 Both firms exhibit in London, side by side as exhibits 6185 and 6186.
- 1886 George Price’s business becomes George Price’s Safe, Lock and Engineering Co. Ltd.
- 1887–1888 George Price dies; his widow petitions to wind up the company.
- 1895 Cyrus Price dies and his firm becomes Cyrus Price & Co. Ltd.
- 1933 A creditor petitions to wind up Cyrus Price & Co. Ltd.
George Price of the Cleveland Works
From printer to safe maker
George Price was born in Bilston around 1819, the son of Joseph Price. The 1841 census calls him a printer and stationer, and in 1851 he was an “auctioneer, appraiser, general agent, accountant and nurseryman”. By 1849 his sister, Mary Eyre, was running the printing business in Cleveland Street.6,1 So when his 1856 price list says “Established 1840”, that’s the printing firm talking. He came to safes later.
His great-granddaughter, Pat Tempest, writes that in the early 1850s he took over the Cleveland Street works of Richard Noakes & Son, who made wrought-iron fire-proof chests fitted with Chubb locks.8 Price himself mentions “my predecessors in the business” and says his first fire test came “soon after I took to the business of which I am now the proprietor”.9,10 By June 1855 he’d rebuilt the place. The Wolverhampton Chronicle admired a works where iron went in “at one end of the building in sheets” and came out “a finished and painted safe, ready to be lowered into the carrier’s waggon”.9
With “sixty pairs of hands at full work” and steam machinery, he said he’d made 310 safes and chests in six months.9 The 1861 census has him employing 50 men and 9 boys; by 1881 it was 30 men and 5 boys.6 In 1858 he also ran an engineering department under William Dawes, formerly chief engineer to the Coalbrookdale Company, and advertised as a boiler maker and machinery valuer.1 According to Tempest, Dawes then helped Samuel Chatwood start making safes in 1861 and was lured back to Price in late 1862, which didn’t make for friendly relations; you can read the Chatwood side in our history of Chatwood safes.8,11
Fire tests and the feud with Milner
Price’s start in the trade was a public embarrassment, and he says so himself. In June 1854 he put two safes, filled only with a non-conducting packing, into a fire of coal, wood and resin barrels in Wolverhampton for three and five hours. Milner’s foreman from Liverpool was there and helped. When they were opened the books were “burnt black at the edge”, the leather was destroyed “and not a vestige of the parchment could be found”.10 Milner’s 1840 patent for a steam-generating filling had just expired, so Price adopted it, and he says every safe he made after that used Milner’s principle.10
Did you know?
At a test in Manchester on 12 October 1854, Price locked his own watch and a £5 note inside a No. 8 book safe, 28 inches high, and kept it in the fire for two and a half hours. The note came out “unsullied” and the watch was still going, though it stopped when it hit the cold air.10
The rivalry with Milner turned personal. Price says Milner opposed his 1855 patent before the Solicitor-General, without success, and that Milner’s Manchester representative paraded one of his older safes through the streets on a lorry, door plates prised apart, labelled “Price’s First-class Safe”. On 12 November 1855 Price challenged Milner to a public trial, one safe each, attacked with picks, gunpowder, drills and chisels, for a hundred guineas. He says it was never accepted.3,12 If you’ve read our history of Milner safes, this is the other side of the same quarrel.
According to Tempest, it ended badly. At Burnley in 1860 a Milner agent packed gunpowder into an old Price safe whose lock wasn’t powder-proof; the blast killed a child, and the coroner censured both sides for “attempting such a dangerous experiment in the presence of the public”.11 We haven’t found a newspaper report of the inquest, so that story rests on her research. She also credits Price with an 1866 pamphlet, Forty Burglaries of the years 1863-4-5, listing burgled Milner safes.13
The treatise and the patents
Price’s Treatise on Fire & Thief-proof Depositories and Locks and Keys came out in 1856: 916 pages, printed in Wolverhampton, with the preface signed at the Cleveland Safe Works on 15 December 1856. He says it grew out of lectures he gave in 1855 in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin and Belfast, and he apologises for sounding “somewhat egotistical” in the safe chapters, which were “really written in self-defence”.14 We read the safe chapters in the ETH Zürich scan. They’re opinionated, often funny and full of other makers’ specifications and prices, and they’re the best single picture of the British safe trade in the 1850s I’ve come across.
“Iron safes… should be of such a design, and so neatly finished, as to please the eye and be an ornament to the counting-house.”
George Price, Treatise, 1856
His own patent of 31 January 1855 had four parts: an anti-rust coating inside the fire-proof chambers, case-hardening the doors and outer body “which gives to the surface of the iron plates the hardness of steel”, honeycomb filling inside the small lock, and cellular work in the lock chamber so that a drilled hole couldn’t take enough gunpowder to blow the door.3 Chubb’s 1875 patent lists give it as No. 236 and add more Price patents: steam-tight chests (1855), locks (1859 and 1860), a provisional one for coating doors with steel (1860), an angle-iron frame with William Dawes (1863) and a plate-iron frame (1866).7 One safe engineer’s website dates No. 236 to 1860, but Price’s own book and his price list both say 1855.15,16 In 1862 he also listed a second book, a Treatise on Gunpowder-proof Locks, Drill-proof Safes.17
Limited company, winding up and Gibbons
By 1884 Price was advertising case-hardened safes, strong rooms and bullion chests with his “Ne Plus Ultra” locks, prize medals from 1862 to 1884, and offices in London and Manchester. Around 1877 the works even turned out bicycles, the “London” and the cheaper “Liverpool” at £9 10s.1 In 1886 the business was converted into George Price’s Safe, Lock and Engineering Company Limited.1 Price died at Penn Fields in 1887.6
The company didn’t outlast him for long. On 14 April 1888 Mr Justice Stirling ordered it to be wound up, on the petition of Jane Price, widow, and Herbert Price Lavender, an engineer of Wednesbury.18 Yet the name carried on. Grace’s Guide lists the firm among advertisers in 1896–97, and in 1914 “George Prices Safe Co” was making safes, strong rooms and tubular steel shelving as “general bankers’ engineers”.1 What happened in between is where the sources part company: Tempest says James Gibbons took the business over in 1906, with Price’s son Bertie in charge, while “safeman” puts the Gibbons takeover in the 1930s.13,4 Gibbons’ St John’s Works were in Church Lane, the same street Grace’s Guide gives for the later Cleveland Safe and Lock Works, and Gibbons was listed as a safe manufacturer there by 1937.19,1
Cyrus Price & Co. of the Britannia Works
Cyrus Price left no treatise, so his firm’s story comes from patents, exhibition catalogues and its own publicity. Grace’s Guide dates it to about 1839; the firm and its successors say 1840.2,20 The first hard date we found is March 1860, when Cyrus Price of Wolverhampton applied for a patent for “improvements in locks and latches”.21 Chubb’s lists add lock patents in 1861 (with Elihu Price) and 1865, and in 1866 Elihu and Cyrus Price patented “improvements in safes, strong rooms, iron doors, and their locks”.7,22
At the 1862 International Exhibition the two Prices stood next to each other in the catalogue. Exhibit 6185 was “Price, Cyrus, & Co., Hursley Fields, Wolverhampton”, showing double-action detector locks and gunpowder-proof, fire-proof safes; exhibit 6186 was George Price.17 “Hursley” is the catalogue’s spelling of Horseley Fields, which is where an early advert puts “C. Price & Co.” and their Britannia Works, making “Champion” fire, drill and burglar-proof safes and “Champion” gunpowder-proof detector locks.5 The firm later claimed the 1862 prize medal “for new and special improvements”, and put it on its plates.23 We couldn’t find Cyrus Price in the OCR text of the official medals list, but that scan is poor, so we’d treat it as unconfirmed rather than wrong.24
An industrial review reprinted in the firm’s 1907 catalogue fills in the rest. Further medals followed at Wolverhampton (1869), Cardiff (1888) and Melbourne (1888–89). When Cyrus Price died in 1895 the business became a private limited company, run by Walter Russell Baker, who had been with it for over 25 years. The Britannia Safe and Lock Works were on the Wednesfield Road, near three railways, and the reviewer saw safe bodies “bent cold out of a single steel plate” by hydraulic machinery, “fire-resisting 212 degree book safes”, and a “quadruple extra strong Holdfast” safe for bankers and pawnbrokers.23 In 1914 the firm listed bent steel safes, strong room doors, deed and bullion chests, and 50 employees.2
On 3 January 1933 a West Bromwich metal merchant, H. C. Siddens & Co. Ltd, petitioned the county court at Wolverhampton to wind up Cyrus Price & Co. Ltd.25 The name survived: a 1938 advert still offers “Cyrus Price & Co. Ltd., the original & world-renowned firm, bent steel safe & lock manufacturers”, Wednesfield Road, “established nearly a century”, and the gazetteer says James Gibbons acquired the business in the late 1930s.5
Cyrus Price, Guardian and Insafe
You’ll often read that Cyrus Price became Guardian Safes. That chain comes from one place: the safe company Insafe, which owns the names. Its 2016 history page says Cyrus Price “changed hands and names eventually being renamed Guardian Safe & Steel Furniture Company with a factory at Giggety Bridge, Wombourne before becoming Guardian Safes”, and that Guardian Safes “were based in Bristol”.20 A stock-photo caption repeats the same wording.26 Neither gives a date, and we couldn’t find a company record or a newspaper to back it up, so we’d treat it as the firm’s own family tree: plausible for the trade name, unproven for the business.
That Bristol link is probably also where the “Price & Co. of Bristol” safe maker comes from. We haven’t found any such firm. If your plate says “Price & Co.”, look for “Wolverhampton”, “Britannia Works” or a seated Britannia: it’s almost certainly Cyrus Price & Co.
How to tell George Price from Cyrus Price
Neither firm’s serial number registers have turned up, so a number alone won’t date your safe. The name, the works, the plate design and the address will. Here’s what each firm put on its doors.
Clue 1
First name and works
“George” and “Cleveland” mean George Price. “Cyrus”, “C. Price” and “Britannia Works” mean Cyrus Price & Co. Both firms underlined their first names to avoid confusion.5
Dating by plate wording
| Wording or mark on the safe | Maker and likely date | Dated evidence |
|---|---|---|
| “George Price”, “Patent”, Cleveland (Safe) Works, Wolverhampton | George Price, from about 1854 | Price list 1856; adverts 185816,1 |
| “George Price’s Treble-Patent Fire-Proof & Thief-Proof”, shield with royal arms | George Price, around 1860 | “Treble Patent Safes” advert, 1860; plate photographed in the gazetteer1,5 |
| “86 Queen Street, Cheapside, London”, “Prize Medal 1862” | George Price, mid-1860s | 1867 advert; plate dated c.1866 by Grace’s Guide1 |
| “Ne Plus Ultra” lock; 34 Queen Victoria Street, London; Manchester | George Price, 1860s to 1880s | 1862 catalogue; 1884 advert17,1 |
| “George Price’s Safe, Lock and Engineering Co. Ltd” | George Price, 1886–1888 | Company formed 1886, winding-up order 18881,18 |
| “George Price Limited” or “George Price’s Safe Co.”, “Bankers Engineers” | George Price’s successors, after 1888 (probably early 20th century) | “Bankers’ engineers” in 1914; transfers at Beamish and the Black Country Living Museum1,28 |
| “C. Price & Co.”, Britannia Works, Horseley Fields | Cyrus Price, 1860s | 1862 catalogue (Hursley Fields); early advert17,5 |
| Round plate: Britannia, “Prize Medal London 1862”, “212”, Britannia Works | Cyrus Price, after 1862 | Plates in the gazetteer and dealer listings5,29 |
| Same plate with “Regd. Trade Mark 1888” | Cyrus Price, 1888 or later | Dealer listing and gazetteer photograph27,5 |
| “Cyrus Price & Co. Ltd” | Cyrus Price, 1895 or later | Limited company from 18952,23 |
| Wednesfield Road | Cyrus Price, by 1899 to the late 1930s | 1899 review; 1914; 1938 advert5,2 |
| “Proprietors: Price Industrial Securities Ltd” | Cyrus Price name, later owners; date unknown | Transfer in the Willenhall Lock Museum5 |
The later George Price transfers are lovely things: a green cartouche with gold lettering, scrolls and ribbons, “Manufactured by” in a looping script above the name. We’ve seen photographs of two versions, one reading “George Price Limited” and one “George Price’s Safe Co.”, both with “Bankers Engineers, Wolverhampton”. Neither carries a date, and we haven’t found a company formally called “George Price Limited”, so we’d date them loosely to the years after the 1888 winding-up, when the firm was selling itself as bankers’ engineers.1,28
Construction helps too. Price’s 1856 “first-class” safes were built of quarter-inch boiler plate, dovetailed and riveted to angle iron, with doors of two plates panelled with bar iron.12 Cyrus Price safes described as bent from one steel sheet with rounded corners belong to the later firm: its works were bending bodies that way by 1907.23 For the general method, see our guide to dating an old safe.
Myths and mix-ups
George Price and Cyrus Price were the same family firm.
They were separate businesses on different sides of Wolverhampton, exhibiting separately in 1862. No source we found connects the families.17,4
George Price made safes from 1840.
1840 is when he started as a printer. His own book places his entry into the safe trade around 1853–54.1,10
Price & Co. was a Bristol safe maker.
We’ve found no such firm. The Bristol link is Guardian Safes, which Insafe says later carried the Cyrus Price name.20
I have a Price safe: what now?
Most Price safes still around are small office and book safes, though both firms built strong rooms too. Whichever Price you’ve got, the practical questions are the same.
Keys
No key?
Both firms made their own patent locks, and no key records survive that we know of.17 A safe engineer can usually make a replacement key for an old safe from the lock. Don’t drill or force it.
Weight
How heavy is it?
Price gave real figures in 1856: 5 cwt 3 qr, about 644 lb (292 kg), for a 30-inch single-door safe, and 10 cwt 1 qr, about 1,148 lb (521 kg), for a 36-inch double-door one.9 Try our safe weight calculator for yours.
Moving
Moving it
A restorer describes a 61 cm Cyrus Price safe at 95 kg (about 209 lb) as “a 2 man lift”.30 Read how to move or get rid of an old safe first.
What is a Price safe worth?
Price safes don’t come up often, and many sale results are never published. The listings below are what I could actually check; they show the range, not the value of yours. Condition, original paint and transfers, a working lock with keys, and the cost of moving the thing matter more than which Price made it. Our guide to whether old safes are worth anything explains why.
| Safe | Kind of price | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Cyrus Price & Co., steel, about 1890, 61 cm high, original key, 1888 trade mark plate | Dealer, sold | £49527 |
| Cyrus Price & Co. Ltd, late Victorian, 56 cm high, with key | Auction estimate, 2018 | £40–£6031 |
| George Price, Cleveland Works, Victorian two-door, 92 cm high | Auction estimate, Sydney, 2024 (did not sell) | A$900–A$1,30032 |
| Cyrus Price & Co. Ltd, 1920s, 167 cm high, from a jeweller’s | Dealer, sold 2024 | Price not shown33 |
| Cyrus Price & Co., “prize medal safe 1862”, patent lock and drawer, both keys | Auction, 2016 | Price not published34 |
| George Price, Cleveland Works, brown paint, 62 cm wide | Auction, 2015 | Price not published35 |
This is an informal guide, not a professional appraisal. Not sure which Price you’ve got? Send us photos of the plate, the keyhole and any numbers, and we’ll tell you what we can about who made it and when.
Wolverhampton wasn’t the only Black Country safe town: Samuel Withers of West Bromwich had the same two-firms-one-name problem. For the wider picture, see our list of British safe makers and their dates.
Frequently asked questions
Who made Price safes?
Two Wolverhampton firms: George Price of the Cleveland Safe and Lock Works, Cleveland Street, and Cyrus Price & Co. of the Britannia Works, first in Horseley Fields and later in Wednesfield Road.
Is George Price the same company as Cyrus Price?
No. They were rival firms that exhibited separately in 1862, and collectors who’ve studied both find no family connection. Look for “George” or “Cyrus” on the plate.
How old is my Cyrus Price safe?
“Ltd” means 1895 or later, and a plate with “Regd. Trade Mark 1888” means 1888 or later. “C. Price & Co.” with Horseley Fields points to the 1860s.
How old is my George Price safe?
Plain “George Price” with Cleveland Works and “Patent” fits about 1854 to 1886. “Safe, Lock and Engineering Co. Ltd” means 1886 to 1888, and “Bankers Engineers” transfers are later.
What is a George Price or Cyrus Price safe worth?
The few published prices for small Price safes run from auction estimates under £100 to a few hundred pounds from dealers. Condition and keys matter most. It’s an informal guide, not a valuation.
Can I get a key for a Price safe?
Usually, yes. A specialist safe engineer can make a key from the lock itself without damaging the safe.
Sources:
- Grace’s Guide, “George Prices Safe Co”, citing adverts of 1849–1867, the Iron Trade Circular of 2 October 1886 and the 1914 Whitaker’s Red Book. ↩︎
- Grace’s Guide, “Cyrus Price and Co”, citing the 1914 Whitaker’s Red Book. ↩︎
- Price, Treatise (1856), ch. III, pp. 10 and 16–18: list of fire-proof safe patents and his own patent of 31 January 1855, via e-rara. ↩︎
- antique-locks.com forum, “George Price / Cyrus Price”, posts by “safeman”, 23 October 2015. ↩︎
- Jim Evans and contributors, “A Gazetteer of Lock and Key Makers”, entries “Cyrus Price and Co. Ltd” and “George Price”, Wolverhampton History & Heritage website, with photographs of plates and adverts. ↩︎
- Grace’s Guide, “George Price (2)”: censuses 1841–1881 and probate calendar. ↩︎
- George Hayter Chubb, Protection from Fire and Thieves (London, 1875), lists of patents for locks and for safes, via Project Gutenberg. ↩︎
- Pat Tempest, “George Price’s Treatise: the Locksmith’s Bible”, page 2, Wolverhampton History & Heritage website. The author is George Price’s great-granddaughter. ↩︎
- Price, Treatise (1856), ch. XI, pp. 126–131: comparative prices, weights of his two specimen safes, and the Wolverhampton Chronicle of 20 June 1855 on his new works, via e-rara. ↩︎
- Price, Treatise (1856), ch. VI, pp. 82–87: his failed Wolverhampton test of June 1854 and the Manchester test of 12 October 1854, quoting the Manchester Examiner and Times, via e-rara. ↩︎
- Pat Tempest, “George Price’s Treatise: the Locksmith’s Bible”, page 3, Wolverhampton History & Heritage website. ↩︎
- Price, Treatise (1856), ch. V, pp. 39–44: “Price’s Patent First-class Fire Resisting and Thief-proof Safes”, the Manchester exhibition of one of his safes and his challenge to Milner of 12 November 1855, via e-rara. ↩︎
- Pat Tempest, “George Price’s Treatise: the Locksmith’s Bible”, page 4, Wolverhampton History & Heritage website. ↩︎
- George Price, A Treatise on Fire & Thief-proof Depositories and Locks and Keys (London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; E. & F. N. Spon, 1856; printed in Wolverhampton), preface dated Cleveland Safe Works, 15 December 1856, and contents, ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, via e-rara (public domain). ↩︎
- safeman.org.uk, “About safes: the early Victorians”. ↩︎
- List of George Price’s Improved Patent Wrought-Iron Fire-resisting and Thief-proof Book and Plate Safes, Deed Boxes, &c. (Wolverhampton, 1856), bound at the end of the ETH copy of the Treatise, via e-rara. ↩︎
- International Exhibition of 1862: Official Illustrated Catalogue, part XII, Class 31, exhibits 6185 (Cyrus Price & Co.) and 6186 (George Price), pp. 72–77, via the Internet Archive. ↩︎
- The London Gazette, 24 April 1888, issue 25810, p. 2350: winding-up order of 14 April 1888 for George Price’s Safe Lock and Engineering Company Limited. ↩︎
- Grace’s Guide, “James Gibbons”, citing Wolverhampton directories 1879–1938. ↩︎
- Insafe International, “Our history”, archived 15 January 2016 (the company’s own account). ↩︎
- The London Gazette, 15 May 1860, issue 22385, p. 1842: No. 598, Cyrus Price of Wolverhampton, “improvements in locks and latches”. ↩︎
- The London Gazette, 15 June 1866, issue 23127, p. 3496: No. 1390, Elihu Price and Cyrus Price, “improvements in safes, strong rooms, iron doors, and their locks”. ↩︎
- “Cyrus Price & Company Limited”, article from Wolverhampton & South Staffordshire Illustrated reprinted in the firm’s 1907 catalogue, Wolverhampton History & Heritage website. ↩︎
- Medals and Honourable Mentions Awarded by the International Juries (International Exhibition, 1862), via the Internet Archive (searched in the OCR text only). ↩︎
- The London Gazette, 13 January 1933, issue 33902, p. 313: petition of 3 January 1933 to wind up Cyrus Price & Co. Ltd. ↩︎
- Tony Smith, “Safe label from Cyrus Price & Co Ltd Wolverhampton 212”, photographed at Barrington Court, Somerset, 14 June 2013, Alamy stock photo DEJN67, caption text. ↩︎
- Collinge Antiques, Llandudno Junction, “Steel Safe with Key by Cyrus Price & Co. c.1890”, Antiques Atlas listing (sold; checked 31 October 2026). ↩︎
- The Auction Centre, 11 July 2015, lot 80, “A steel safe marked George Price Ltd, Bankers Engineers, Wolverhampton with key”, the-saleroom (result not shown). ↩︎
- Christian Davies Antiques, “A Victorian period cast iron safe by Cyrus Price & Co of Wolverhampton” (sold, price not shown; checked 31 October 2026). ↩︎
- Lincoln Restorations, “Antique Cyrus Price luxury fireproof safe, fully restored” (sold, price not shown; checked 31 October 2026). ↩︎
- Mellors & Kirk, Antique and Collectors’ Sale, 3 October 2018, lot 573 (result not shown). ↩︎
- Lawsons, Sydney, 18 July 2024, lot 1001, via Invaluable (passed). ↩︎
- Browns Antiques and Reclamation, South Molton, “Large 1920’s safe made by Cyrus Price and Co. Ltd.”, Sellingantiques (sold 20 February 2024, price not shown). ↩︎
- Auction House Berwick, 5 March 2016, lot 294, Cyrus Price “prize medal safe 1862”, the-saleroom (price not published). ↩︎
- Golding Young & Mawer, Lincoln, 16 September 2015, George Price safe, the-saleroom (price not published). ↩︎
