Mosler Safe Co., Hamilton, Ohio - 2 movements

Mosler Safe and Lock Co., Covington, Kentucky

This lock represents the first type put out by Mosler Safe and Lock in 1887. That same year Mosler had bought out the patent rights to Beard & Brother's time lock design and left it vitally unchanged. It contains two 48 hour E. Howard movements controlled by a central dial. They wholesaled at $78.00 each to Mosler from E. Howard. Yale used a design similar to this where two movements are controlled by one dial. Of the 400 of this first type of time lock made by Mosler only 5 are known. Movement #699, case #87.  file 105

This company is not to be confused with the Mosler Safe Company which was the result of a series of consolidations of earlier companies including this one, Mosler Bahmann and Banker's Dustproof Time Lock Co. That company emerged in 1917.