Tools for Safe Owners

Free tools for owners of old safes: find out who made your safe, how old it is and how much it weighs.

Free, by email

Identify my safe

Send a few photos of your safe, its plate and its lock. We tell you who most likely made it and roughly when, and you can ask for a written report with a value range.

Calculator

Safe weight calculator

Enter the outside size of your safe to estimate its weight from makers’ catalogue figures, and see what that means for your floor and for moving it.

Dating tool

How old is my safe?

Pick the maker, tick what you can see on the plate, lock and body, and get a sourced date range. Covers 19 makers, including Milner, Chubb, Tann, Mosler and J. & J. Taylor.

Not sure where to start? Our owner’s guide, I have an old safe: what now?, walks you through identifying, dating, valuing, moving or selling an old safe, and points you to the right tool at each step.