Concealing Valuables from Thieves with Diversion Safes
Diversion safes offer a discrete and unique hiding place for an assortment of valuables of a smaller nature, such as cash, jewelry, credit cards or passports. Disguised as everyday household objects, these safes can be positioned within complete sight without the need to be concerned with theft or detection.
A book, water or soda bottle, candle, CD stack, or larger items such as a floor-standing fan or wall clock are all popular designs and shapes for a diversion safe.
A book (often an unpopular or boring title) will feature a hollowed out center to conceal those value items. These novels are made to look and feel like the genuine article, with a compartment at 6.5 x 4 1.5 inches, and blends in perfectly to a bookshelf with other similar sized and titled books.
A soda or water bottle offers a unique place to conceal valuables in what looks from the outside to be a common water filled bottle. With a twist of the bottles base, a concealed chamber can be revealed for storing an assortment of keepsakes.
A candle safe has the appearance of a genuine candle, with the exact same feel and look with a burnable wick, but with the center portion hollow for concealing those valuables. The bottom of the candle is twisted off to reveal a compact chamber, and coated with a metal shield to protect the contents, so that the candle can be used if desired.
Can safes in the shape of a cleaning or food based product is an extremely popular choice, very well-made, and almost impossible to detect in a pantry or cupboard. A fruit cocktail tin for instance, can be constructed with a genuine product container, but modified with a bottom that unscrews to unveil a space for storing several smaller valuables. Once that cap is screwed back in place any sign of a seam or gap goes more or less unnoticed.
These diversion safes work on the concept that a would-be thief isn't going to waste time looking that closely at common household objects, the more mundane the better, and just pass them by.
A book, water or soda bottle, candle, CD stack, or larger items such as a floor-standing fan or wall clock are all popular designs and shapes for a diversion safe.
A book (often an unpopular or boring title) will feature a hollowed out center to conceal those value items. These novels are made to look and feel like the genuine article, with a compartment at 6.5 x 4 1.5 inches, and blends in perfectly to a bookshelf with other similar sized and titled books.
A soda or water bottle offers a unique place to conceal valuables in what looks from the outside to be a common water filled bottle. With a twist of the bottles base, a concealed chamber can be revealed for storing an assortment of keepsakes.
A candle safe has the appearance of a genuine candle, with the exact same feel and look with a burnable wick, but with the center portion hollow for concealing those valuables. The bottom of the candle is twisted off to reveal a compact chamber, and coated with a metal shield to protect the contents, so that the candle can be used if desired.
Can safes in the shape of a cleaning or food based product is an extremely popular choice, very well-made, and almost impossible to detect in a pantry or cupboard. A fruit cocktail tin for instance, can be constructed with a genuine product container, but modified with a bottom that unscrews to unveil a space for storing several smaller valuables. Once that cap is screwed back in place any sign of a seam or gap goes more or less unnoticed.
These diversion safes work on the concept that a would-be thief isn't going to waste time looking that closely at common household objects, the more mundane the better, and just pass them by.
