Salesman sample safe or not

bitbuster

I’ve seen on ebay and craigslist where people have for sale what they think or have been told by “dealers” are salesman sample safes.I have a Meilink Home Deposit safe and a Victor safe that are about 13″-14″ high and about 10″ wide.These are not salesman samples (they’re too big), but I see others on the web that advertise them as salesman samples.
There is a safe on the LaCrosse,WI craigslist advertised as a salesman sample.If you look this up it’s the black safe made of sheetmetal.My uncle had one just like it in the early 50’s that I inherited. It had been painted blue when I got it.My mother vividly recalls my uncle ordering it from a mail-order catalog.A person is not going to order a salesman sample of anything.These safe were just that—–small safes, nothing more.
Thoughts?

Tom Gordon

They often had a seal around the door on the basis that they would be taken on a cruise ship. You need somewhere to lock up your cash and jewellery away from the fingers of the ship’s crew but no-one was going to be able to carry the safe further away than say 100 metres between ports.
Nowadays it is easy to buy a small firesafe in a DIY store and this was the same thing - a box that people were willing to buy for low level security at a reasonable cost.