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Vintage Home Safe/Money Box, How to open

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  • #2
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    €20 or so if you can find a buyer. Surely some with your name can't need help opening a savings bank? :D


  • #3
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,620 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    The National Bank became part of the Bank of Ireland in the 1960s, the branch of BOI in Blackrock, Dublin still has the 'National Bank' name carved in stone over the door. On other branches the give-away is usually the name painted in enamel on the night safe.

    Your best bet would be to bring it to a 'National' branch of BOI and see if they managed to hold on to the key. Obviously it would need to be an old main st. branch and not based in a shopping centre, hospital or college.


  • #4
    Fenian Army
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭Fenian Army


    Where there individual keys for each one? Mine is numbered. Would they allow me to get a copy of the key do you reckon?

    TBH I doubt if they would still have the key after 70plus years.

    Would a locksmith be able to open it and make me a key do you reckon?


  • #5
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,620 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Fenian Army wrote: »
    Where there individual keys for each one?

    I very much doubt it. The plan was that a young person saved money in the box, then brought it into the local branch where an official would open the box and the money was used to start a deposit account. I'd be very surprised if there was different keys for each box.
    Fenian Army wrote: »
    TBH I doubt if they would still have the key after 70plus years.

    I'm not that old! It's 'only' 43 years since the National Bank was in business, it merged with the BOI in 1969.
    Fenian Army wrote: »
    Would a locksmith be able to open it and make me a key do you reckon?

    Open it? Probably. Make a key? Doubt it.

    There was a very similar thread not long ago about a Royal Bank of Ireland savings box....

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056629153


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