Post Office Savings Bank Home Safe
This Post Office Savings Bank "Home Safe" was lent to us by Eileen Ferguson and belonged to her parents. The lockable brass box fits inside a removable cardboard sleeve on which are printed the instructions for use.
The box could only be opened by taking it into the Post Office where it would be opened and the money paid into the customer's savings account or used to purchase National Savings Certicates.
This Home Safe bears an image of King George V, who reigned from 6 May 1910 until his death on 20 January 1936. This silver cased edition of the Home Safe bears the dates 1910-1935 and was produced for the King's Silver Jubilee.
Stamped beside the round hole are the words FOR NOTES.
Below the horizontal slot are the words:
PATENTS 371140 AND 375043
PEARSON-PAGE-JEWSBURY Co. LTD. B'HAM
The bottom edge of the Home Safe is stamped with the serial number 760710 (lower picture).
The manufacturers were Pearson Page Jewsbury Co Ltd., of Soho Works, later Westwood Works, Westwood Road, Witton, Birmingham 6. Jewsbury was originally founded 1883 and took over Pearson Page brassware designs when that company was liquidated in 1933. The patents mentioned date from 1932.