Vintage Sentry Combination Safe, Putty Beige with Chrome Dial Plate, John D. Brush & Co. Rochester NY
This is a vintage Sentry combination safe made by John D. Brush & Co., Inc. of Rochester, New York, before the company began trading as Sentry Group in 1987. It is a small floor-standing steel box with rounded corners in a textured putty beige paint, its single door hung on two exposed barrel hinges at the right. A chrome bar lever handle sits at left beside a square brushed aluminum plate holding a 0 to 90 combination dial with a blue center cap. A foil badge reads sentry in bold blue lowercase beside a sentry-figure logo, with the maker's name below.
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John D. Brush & Co. and Sentry
John Brush Sr. and Willard Punnett opened a safe shop in Rochester, New York in 1930 as the Brush-Punnett Company, an early maker of stamped steel safes. Operating as John D. Brush & Co., the company sold safes under the Sentry trademark and began doing business as Sentry Group in 1987. Master Lock bought Sentry in 2014 and closed the Rochester plant in 2016.
Putty beige safe with a chrome dial plate
The vintage Sentry combination safe by John D. Brush & Co. is a small floor-standing fire safe: an upright steel box, slightly taller than wide, with well-rounded vertical corners and edges. It is painted beige, a putty or stone off-white, in a fine textured finish. A single front door fills almost the whole face, set inside a narrow frame of the body. It hangs on two exposed barrel hinges on the right side, painted to match, with domed pin caps. A low recessed plinth with bolt heads runs under the front.
On the left of the door is a chrome lever handle, a straight squared bar that turns to throw the bolts. To its right is a square escutcheon plate of brushed aluminum with a raised frame edge. The plate carries the combination dial: a chrome dial ring with fine graduations numbered 0 to 90 in tens, a fluted chrome knob, and a center cap in blue, a bright metallic electric blue. A small triangle above the dial marks the index.
The maker's badge sits at the top of the plate, a mirror-foil label with the logo in blue. On the left is an emblem shaped like a tall arched doorway outlined in blue, filled with red and white diagonal stripes, with a white silhouette of a standing guard in the center. Beside it, sentry is written in heavy, rounded lowercase letters in royal blue with a small registered mark. Under both, in small blue block capitals, runs JOHN D. BRUSH & CO. INC., ROCHESTER, NEW YORK U.S.A.
On this copy: the safe was not measured. The paint has rust spotting and brown staining across the door and top, worn spots on the edges and dirt at the base. Scratches mark the aluminum plate and badge. Neither the model number plate nor the inside was photographed.
- Type: Small floor-standing combination fire safe
- Material: Steel body and door; brushed aluminum dial plate; chrome handle and dial
- Colors: Beige (putty or stone off-white), chrome silver, blue (metallic electric blue) dial cap
- Door: Single door, two exposed barrel hinges on the right
- Handle: Chrome squared lever on the left of the door
- Lock: Mechanical combination dial, 0 to 90 in tens
- Badge: Blue sentry wordmark with striped arched guard emblem, maker's name below
- Maker: John D. Brush & Co., Inc., Rochester, New York
- This copy: Not measured; rust spots and staining on paint, scratched plate; model number not shown
Badge: sentry® JOHN D. BRUSH & CO. INC., ROCHESTER, NEW YORK U.S.A. Dial: 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
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About the Vintage Sentry Combination Safe, John D. Brush & Co.
How old is my Sentry safe if it says John D. Brush & Co.?
It was made before 1987, when the company began doing business as Sentry Group. Safes from Sentry Group or later carry that name instead.
Who made Sentry safes?
Sentry safes were made in Rochester, New York, by the company founded in 1930 as Brush-Punnett, later John D. Brush & Co. and then Sentry Group. Master Lock bought it in 2014.
Where is the model number on a vintage Sentry safe?
Check for a label or stamped plate on the door edge, the inside of the door and the back of the safe. No model plate was shown in these photos.