Open Sesame! Varnum Electric Door Engines – for Safer Safety
Varnum Door Engine CompanyLos Angeles: Varnum Door Engine Company, No date.
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20cm x 13cm. 16 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers.
Early 1920s catalogue for the Varnum Door Engine. Contains a short history of the Varnum door opening and closing engine, followed by details and photographs of them as installed in bank vaults and the gates of grand estates. Also included are letters of recommendation from happy customers, and a list of banks across the United States using the door engines.
Minor wear and creasing to wrappers, very minor chips at crown and tail of spine. Pencil annotations to one page. Very Good Condition.
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AU$200