Safe Plates

yankeeron

A friend has just obtained, from a deceased relative, a collection of brass name plates from various items of machinery. In the collection are some Safe Makers Plates. Can anyone tell me if there is a collectors club in the U.K. where he could sell them on? If not he said he will put them on Ebay.
I have just looked on a collectors site based in Germany, which shows pictures of Safe Plates. In my friends collection there are at least two plates, from RATNERS and JOHN LOWE which this site isn’t showing So I would think they may be pretty rare???

Dean Nickel

I know very little of safe plates but we DO have a for sale section as well as this section. You could post some pictures of the plates in this forum or post and find out what is know about these items and if you like sell them after that.

Tom Gordon

I, on the other hand, have probably the largest collection of safeplates in the world.
Pictures are vital to say anything but please put a ruler in each picture -one tip is that scanning them gives a remarkably good image on almost all scanners.
Cheers
Tom

yankeeron

Tom Gordon wrote
I, on the other hand, have probably the largest collection of safeplates in the world.
Pictures are vital to say anything but please put a ruler in each picture -one tip is that scanning them gives a remarkably good image on almost all scanners.
Cheers
Tom

Hi Tom do you want me to send the scans to you? or put them on the site? If you want me to send the scans direct to the web site How do I do it?

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Dean Nickel

http://www.antique-locks.com/whats-new-forum-information/754-how-upload-images-into-your-posts.html
Follow the link to find out how to upload pictures.

yankeeron

Here are the photographs of the Safe Plates I mentioned in an earlier post

Tom Gordon

The top one is very unusual - I havent seen one with fixings like that before.
I wondered whether it was off a safe or off a display from the period, but the quality is too low for that I would have thought.
As the quality of casting is low I wondered if it was off some sort of knock-off safe, but who would knock-off a Grove?
Old and unusual.

yankeeron

Hi Tom If you are interested in it, for your collection. Do you want to make me an offer for it?

Tom Gordon

Thanks but, having thought about it, it probably had two lower fixings removed at some time.
Cheers
Tom

yankeeron

Tom Gordon wrote
Thanks but, having thought about it, it probably had two lower fixings removed at some time.
Cheers
Tom

Hi Tom No problem, but just given it a good examination and there is no signs that it had two more fixings at the bottom.

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NatSafeMatt

Here is a picture of the nameplate for our National safe & Lock Co. Cleveland, O. We have a friend who owns a chrome shop in Grafton, Ohio. It was copper-plated. It’s nice to have friends in high places.

Russell Stoner

Ok, tom.. gauntlet thrown…How many plates do you have.

We lovely guys at Withy Grove have lost count of the ‘too many’ to count plates, a few are shown lovingly on 3 pages here.

If these plates are up for grabs, then we may be interested….

I note the Withy Grove plate..Yee hah, we are still alive n kicking, and YES, any Withy Plate should be valued highly.

Regards
Russell
Withy Grove (Leeds) Ltd

Tom Gordon

Duplicates aside, I have over 1000 different safeplates. Whrn I started collecting I thought that I would do well to get 100

Dean Nickel

1000?!?! Your walls must be covered! :8):

Tom Gordon

naah-I have a large house-room for plenty more

LockSafe

Tom Gordon wrote
naah-I have a large house-room for plenty more

Over 1000!. I’ve just started and I’ve got 3! And I havn’t got much wall space, so I think I’d better stick to just the ones that are interesting in some way, or pleasing to look at.

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Tom Gordon

That is by far the best reason for collecting anything.