Author: Catalogue - safes. Nagayama Safe Co.
Title: [Nagayama Shiki Kinko Mokuroku].
Description: Tokyo, Nagayama 1911 (Meiji 44). 18x13 publisher's printed wrapper; [34]pp interspersed with a scattering of varied decorative tissue leaves, halftone illustrations. ¶ Safe catalogues are hard to find but not hard to open. The first few photos illustrate the burning of a small structure with one of their safes inside and the open safe safe and sound, so to speak. But I find it hard to believe that a company that would go the trouble of mounting a small protective tissue over the illustration of the portraits of the emperor and empress inside the safe would deliberately put their portraits anywhere near a fire.

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