JOSEF STRAUSS | FIRE RESISTANT! POLKA

Fireproof! was the slogan with which Wertheim advertised its safes. There were spectacular trials by fire. Safes were placed on large pyres; the contents survived the fire intact and could be demonstrated to the astonished crowd. In 1857 such a rehearsal took place in Constantinople in the presence of the sultan. In February 1869 the […]