What TL and cash ratings actually mean on a safe

Diagram of layered security around an artwork: perimeter, building shell, interior zone, display or store, and the object

Had a call last month from a collector out near Toorak Road who’d been quoted on three safes for a small painting collection and some jewellery. One dealer called it a TL-30. Another called the same box a “$50,000 cash rated safe.” He wanted to know which number mattered. Fair question. Twenty-two years doing this […]