This gorgeous and vintage safe originally came from San Francisco in the late 1800s on a clipper ship bould for Honolulu for C. Brewer and Co. C. Brewer & Co. was one of the original "Big Five" firms, which at one time essentially controlled the islands of Hawaii.
It was founded by James Hunnewell, an officer on a ship named the Thaddeus which had brought the first missionaries here to the Hawaiian Islands in 1820. Hunnewell returned in 1826 to set up a trading company which was later traded to Captain Charles Brewer who gave the company its lasting name. After the sugar industry died out, C. Brewer & Co. branched into diversified agriculture and specialty products like Kona Coffee and Maunaloa Macadamia Nuts.
The Home of the Brave Museum acquired the safe through Lion Coffee Co. who recieved it from Rick Ralston, the founder of a popular t-shirt company called Crazy Shirts Hawaii. The outside doors are unlocked but the inner chamber has never been opened since the museum has acquired it...even we are curious as to what may lie inside its iron inner chamber!
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