Typically if you can find a safe dealer who will take it on consignment for sale, the dealer will often subtract charges for the hauling and moving from your end of the sale price. You just have to do it locally and privately, via advertisements (Craig's List for one) or word of mouth.

With all that said, there's still hope if you have an old safe to sell. They've all been approached by an owner who thinks he or she is being clever by telling the safe dealer, 'if you can haul it, you can have it.' We in the safe business know this is usually someone who has already heard price quotes for taking it away and wants it done for free. Many dealers will only give callers a haulaway price. The problem is finding one who likes and wants your old safe enough to spend money, time, and effort acquiring it and hauling it away. Most people aren't interested in big heavy old safes, but there are still plenty of people who like antiques of all kinds. Suppose I told you your old safe is worth $2,500.00. Protection against burglary - there are still some very old safes that will stop burglars (and even a lot of legitimate safe technicians) in their tracks The second consideration is if a safe is very old, it might not have fire and/or burglary resistance ratings and certification labels that many insurers require before granting coverage to the contents.Дespite the foregoing, some old safes do have value as:ДЇire protection (much has been said but not much proven about the so-called fact that big heavy (intact) old fire safes won't protect contents against fire because of their age) 'Can we resell this safe at a profit, after the expense of moving, loading, hauling, unloading, servicing, cleaning, and storing it?' From a business/commercial standpoint, the safe company has to approach the question with this thought in mind: Remember, the safe company is in business.

If it's really old, a safe company representative will usually say something to the effect of 'nothing,' or 'not much.'

The most often-asked question about old safes is 'how much is it worth?' Rather than attempting to be a 'Blue Book' of old safe values, this blog entry is aimed more at giving readers some realistic perspective about that old safe they might be thinking of selling. The Mosler collection was more fun.San Francisco Bay Area and Northern Safe Values But there was no cross reference to tell what the designs were - the numbers do not match up with the catalogs. I'm sure that more time going through the pages would bring up many more orders sold to safe companies. Palm did have some of the early (turn of the century) account books, hand written, and in the 1904 book I found 'Aug 16 / CW Coggins & Co Safes & Vaults, Baltimore / 500 pieces Gold with black edge A749' and 'Aug 4 / Hall Standard Safe / 7/8 and 12 in A738' and 'May 22 / 5500 pieces / Syracuse Safe Co, Syracuse N.Y. Palm has a good set of decals, but they are mostly from the Remington account: guns and typewriter lettering, not the splashy ones I wanted to see. The files are mostly about the business, there are surprisingly few photos. The Library has big collections from Palm Decal and Mosler Safe and smaller ones from Diebold & Victor.

Which now houses the Cincinnati Historical Society Library.

Antique victor safes