Objects of Substance - The Wilkinson Safe

Brisbane Girls Grammar School Magazine, 1913, p 15

Comparing our safe to other images of the same model, it appears that the façade originally had an additional border complete with yellow-gold curlicue details — similar to the lockbox inside — however, the ravages of time, movement from one office to the next, and the many hands that have utilised its abilities to keep unwanted hands out, have taken their toll.