Description

Dims. 31 x 28 x 37 h  -  fully working with combo .

The J. & J. Taylor Safe Works was also known as the Toronto Safe Works. The company began in 1855 as a foundry that made machine and large castings, materials for the building trade to be used as decorative and structural elements in buildings, boats, and safes. Their safes were fire and theft proof, which gave them a near-monopoly in the safe-making business. The safes were bulky and heavy. The factory expanded in 1867 and again in 1877 to occupy most of the east end of the block in Toronto.