Antique Safe update - 11/30/06
Antique Safe Grand Opening - 10/24/06
On Tuesday, October 24, 2006 at 11:00 a.m. the West Sacramento Historical Society opened the 1920's-1930's safe to reveal the contents. The "Grand Opening" was held at Liberty Safes in West Sacramento.
(press release)
See local coverage:
Sacramento Bee
Channel 3 KCRA
Channel 3 video
Channel 10 video
Dave Westin also gave an enthusiastic description of the discovery, the theft, the police investigation, and tracking the safe down through the antique community.
Dave said that the antique appraiser dated the safe from 1910 - 1920. When the locksmith took off the lock casing, he determined that the lock itself was from the l930's. The safe was valued between $10,000 - 20,000 on the antiques/collectibles market.
The only contents was a balance sheet from the California Dehydration Co dated l977.
