Once your item leaves our warehouse, it is no longer our responsibility, and any damage during shipping must be handled by making a claim through the shipper. For items that are picked up or collected. Assuming it is returned in the same condition it was sent and returned within 14 days. If you are unhappy with your purchase we will accept a return if it is mailed back to us(at your cost) within 14 days. Used, and large, we only accept returns for mailed items. Return Policy As most of our items are vintage. If I have made a mistake in my description I am always happy to rectify this. Any questions will be answered as quickly as possible. I show all angles of the item on photographs so please review the pictures as they should be considered part of the description. You should assume these are present unless we specify otherwise here at the beginning of the condition report. I am always honest and clear in my descriptions and always point out any flaws to avoid disappointment but I can not disclose every minute sign of use on our items as it would be impossible to do so. A buyer of vintage objects should assume a baseline of wear. Condition Disclosure All our items are vintage/antiques and/or are used and most have had decades of use. This is still fully functional as well as aesthetically pleasing. Condition In good condition- please see all pictures as they form part of the description. Measurements Measurements are 21" tall by 16" long by 10" wide. Simple and elegant in construction it would make a great addition to any library, living room or man cave. This is a recent acquisition from an antique dealers estate. more dovetail jointing and stabilizers which intimates Victorian in date. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mosler Safe Company.Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Description Antique French walnut book press complete with wooden turn screw. ^ "Business and History - Chubb-Mosler and Taylor Safes Ltd.to Cease All Operations, Diebold to Support Customers in Wake of Mosler's Liquidation". "Found: A Miniature Working Model of the National Archives Vault". "From Financial Guru to Brooklyn Ceramist". The Mosler name carries on to this day in Canada as Chubb-Mosler and Taylor Safes Ltd., the outcome of a 1950s merger of Mosler's Canadian operations with those of Chubb Security, followed by the acquisition of Taylor Safes of Canada in the following decade. Diebold subsequently announced programs to support former Mosler customers and ended up buying much of the former company in bankruptcy court a few months later. Īfter 134 years in business, Mosler filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August 2001, citing continuing debt problems, and ceased operations shortly thereafter. American Standard then sold the division to a group of Mosler managers and outside investors in 1986. Mosler was controlled by its founding family until 1967, when they sold it to American Standard Companies.
Mosler also built the gold vaults for the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox. Despite the weight ("the largest and heaviest hinged shielding doors in the world"), each 58-ton blade could be opened and closed manually by one person. One example, installed at the Atomic Energy Commission's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, weighed approximately 138 tons including the frame.
Mosler built the vault formerly used to display and store the United States Constitution and Declaration of Independence. When the US government began building bunkers and silos during the Cold War, Mosler became the de facto gold standard contractor for blast doors. Its safes and vaults were renowned for their strength and precision manufacture: several Mosler vaults installed in Hiroshima's Mitsui Bank building prior to WWII survived the nuclear attack, a fact the company widely publicized in its marketing. Mosler, Bahmann & Company remained in business until around 1898. outgrew its original factory it relocated to Hamilton in 1891, where it remained until its 2001 bankruptcy. Both companies remained in Cincinnati until the 1890s. Bahmann, leaving Mosler, Bahmann & Company to start the Mosler Safe & Lock Company. In 1874 after Gustave's death, the Mosler family had a falling out with Mr. The Mosler Safe Company was a manufacturer of security equipment-most notably safes and bank vaults-from 1874 until its bankruptcy in 2001.įounded in Cincinnati by Gustave Mosler and Fred Bahmann as Mosler, Bahmann & Company in 1867.
The Mosler Safe Company factory, Hamilton, circa 1894.