Diebold cannonball safe date

[Archer7740]

Hello all

I just got done restoring an old Diebold cannonballs safe. Don’t know much about it. Father got it out of a bank 30 years ago and we just got around to restoring it. Looked online to see how old it is and just have some guesses. See attached pictures. I have all the numbers I can think to take pictures of.

When redoing it we saw the casting marks on the far inside of the door. They read TISCO. Saw something they made doors for the safes in late 1800s. The number 72 is stamped randomly on items in the mechanics of the door.

Other information on line shows it not that old.

Any guess from anyone???

Thanks for your help

[Squelchtone]

TISCO stands for the foundry that cast your safe for Diebold.

Taylor-Wharton Iron and Steel Company

in business 1742 to today with their foundry closing in 1971 based on what this article writes https://www.nj.com/hunterdon/2017/09/ce ... n_and.html

This blog mentions TISCO making the metal for a Diebold safe in 1921, so you can at least start to form a list of years they made castings for them:
https://princetonhistory.com/2021/03/30 ... er-street/

Princeton Republic, June 16, 1921 – “The Princeton State Bank recently installed a burglar proof safe which they procured from the Diebold Safe & Lock Co. of Dayton, Ohio. The safe is of the very latest design and the mechanism is operated by three clocks in the door. The steel of which the body is made is the celebrated Tisco Manganese steel and known as the hardest and strongest steel on the market. … The body of the safe is one solid casting and the door is also one solid casting and is ground into a jam with alundum and oil so as to make it absolutely liquid tight and proof against nitroglycerine.”

There are a few groups on Facebook that may be able to get you a date of manufacture closer to the decade it was made, but I am not sure if Diebold serial numbers were ever made public. Some people keep their own lists over the years so they can at least give you a balllpark answer.

Here is one such group of safe collectors: https://www.facebook.com/groups/353624073336034

paint job came out really nice!

Squelchtone

[Kaesekopf]

Looks very nice! If it's not too difficult, would you also be able to post some pictures of the combo lock?

[Archer7740]

Thanks for the information.


And sorry looked through my pictures and I did not take any pictures of when we had the dial apart. Kinda surprised we didn’t.