These boxes were said to have originally been designed for Railroad Express Agency to safeguard gold, and seem to have been contracted by a plethora of different company's including Wells Fargo, and the United States Military, originally manufactured by Herrington Hall-Marvin Safe Co. Apparently this was a consolidation of Hall's Safe and Lock Co. Cincinnati, Marvin Safe Co. New York City, and Barrel & Co. and Meyers & Smith, Philadelphia. The groundbreaking ceremonies in 1896. They had nearly 50% of the world's safe and vault production and were contracted to make the strongboxes for Railway Express. Similar models have also been manufactured by Victor Safe Co. Cincinnati, Ohio as a Quartermaster's safe for WWI, The Korean War, and WWII. Back when wars used to be funded with gold. This iron strongbox says it was manufactured in Lawton, Oklahoma, Larrance Tank Corporation, a steel fabricator who manufactured land mines for both world wars, as well as Jeep Wiley's, and these strongbox's, for the safekeeping of classified documents, cash, and gold. Larrance now doing business as Larrance Steel, dated 1942.