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Diebold Jewelers Safe May 23 1871 Peerless Eagle Lock

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Diebold Jewelers Safe May 23 1871 Peerless Eagle Lock

Postby 7Country-Folk7 » 19 Aug 2017 9:16

I have a late 1800's to early 1900's fireproof jewelers safe or at least what I have been told is a jewelers safe due to it having a secondary door that is quite intricate and built like Fort Knox.

The safe is complete other than it didn't have its complete inner combination lock for the inner door. I have seen pictures of safes that have this same or very similar door but yet them having different style locks and so makes this a bit harder figuring out which lock in these pictures that I came across on the internet was the correct one... so did someone adapt one of these locks or can all of the different style locks be original to the jewelers doors because Diebold used different style locks on this same jewelers doors? I also wonder if the lock that was on my safe's jewelers door was the original but somehow down the road someone misplaced the few missing parts like the bolt, lever, etc.

I recently replaced the missing parts and got the lock itself working but when I tried the lock in the door, the bolt wouldn't retract far enough to allow the 'dog legs' on the jeweler's door mechanism to close shut far enough to allow me to continue any further.

I will try adding pictures to this post but not sure how it will go since I just found out that photobucket is now worthless unless you pay them a yearly fee to link your pictures from there to other sites.

If everything goes good with me using imgur.com to host my images and then link them to this post, I will first add pictures just showing my safe, lock, jewelers door, etc and then post again showing more of just the jewelers door and lock, and then post again showing pics of other jewelers doors and locks that I came across.... this will help prevent mixing up what picture goes to what and will make it easier to reference to

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Re: Diebold Jewelers Safe May 23 1871 Peerless Eagle Lock

Postby 7Country-Folk7 » 19 Aug 2017 9:48

Here are some pics that I found online showing the same/similar jewelers door with a lock that is different than the one that's on my jewelers door when I got the safe. Sorry I wasn't able to post more pics showing the different locks in the jewelers door but our pc crashed a couple weeks ago and I'm still trying to find all of my backup files.


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Re: Diebold Jewelers Safe May 23 1871 Peerless Eagle Lock

Postby 7Country-Folk7 » 19 Aug 2017 10:13

I would also like to know what these locks are called.... are they an Eagle, a Peerless, a Kienzel, a 161, what? Would LOVE to find a book that gives diagrams, patents, and such that we could use to identify these locks! Please provide any links to sites that gives reputable information on these Diebold May 23 1871 combination locks.... it's been VERY difficult searching and finding information especially since search engines like bing, google, etc have changed where by they have been CONSTANTLY bringing up results that often have nothing to with or very little in common with what I typed in....I have even gotten to the 10th page of search results and found a couple direct results matching the key words I typed in but yet the first several pages of their search results had many that had nothing or very little to with the key words I typed in.
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Re: Diebold Jewelers Safe May 23 1871 Peerless Eagle Lock

Postby mseifert » 19 Aug 2017 13:01

It is a beautiful antique safe .. I am not an expert on them, but the guys at the link below may be able to help you

https://www.antique-locks.com/forumdisp ... amp-Vaults
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Re: Diebold Jewelers Safe May 23 1871 Peerless Eagle Lock

Postby 7Country-Folk7 » 19 Aug 2017 14:01

mseifert wrote:It is a beautiful antique safe .. I am not an expert on them, but the guys at the link below may be able to help you

https://www.antique-locks.com/forumdisp ... amp-Vaults


Thanks for trying to help :) but I have already been to antique-locks.com and unfortunately wasn't given much help on them telling me what is or what would most likely be the right lock for this type of door, but one of the antique-locks.com forum administrators was more than happy to drive down to my house from Cleveland Ohio to look at it for a service fee and cost of the lock which he said based on the pictures I posted, he probably had the lock I needed :roll:
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Re: Diebold Jewelers Safe May 23 1871 Peerless Eagle Lock

Postby Squelchtone » 19 Aug 2017 14:26

Moving this to This Old Safe
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Re: Diebold Jewelers Safe May 23 1871 Peerless Eagle Lock

Postby GWiens2001 » 29 Aug 2017 23:26

Member has been banned. Locking thread.

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