History - Old safes.

If you are fortunate to, indeed have a modern safe... WELL DONE and providing you have purchased it for its correct Insurance rating to suit your items, you wont have an Insurance issue!

However and the kicker is this-
If you have a safe that features a brass or chromed handle, or name badge screwed to its door, then sadly, and, providing you use it to store cash and valuables then you WILL NOT be covered for any losses, should your safe be stolen, burnt out or even broken into.

When these type of safes, were produced, and no matter what its size is, because size is no indication of physical strength, and they have a name badge screwed to the door, they were produced using mild steel. Modern tools can quite simply rip them open.

In the period, generally after 1820 to relatively modest, 1940’s you never saw high speed drills, HSS drills bits nor road tarmac cutters. Tools of yesteryear would have been cold chisels, hammers and good old nitro glycerine for the bank jobs!

Yes, an old safe, does have its kerb appeal: they are a thing of beauty if correctly refurbished to high standards, and they have a historic story to tell, plus can be a good talking point if you show them as a wine cooler/chest, or even a coffee table.

Our web sites: www.safewithinthebox.co.uk home page does have more information on old safes including those that say Fire proof, because fire proof, they aint!!

I would also like to offer our services of safe identification:

If you are not sure about what your safe is, how old it is, what make it is, or it needs a little TLC, service or new keys, scrapping and much more, then by all means give us a call.

Having sold safes for too many a year, including fitting then, removing them, repairing or disposing and blooming humping the old lumps of steel, I can say that the knowledge attained will help you and your business to comply with modern insurance for the foreseeable future.