7 pages; 6x 9" in stapled wrappers with black and white photograph, + 4 interior photographs. Lists fifteen locations of Chase Safe Deposit Vaults in New York City. Detailing the extraordinary efforts of a fifteen men crew, armed with oxyacetylene torches, pneumatic hammers, crowbards and blasting powder, in an affort to destroy the vault within the old Mechanics and Metals National Bank. This to clear the ground for the erection of the new thirty-eight story Chase National Bank Building. One found in Worldcat holdings; the New York Historical Society Library. Seller Inventory # 1257

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Title: The Siege of 20 Nassau Street

Publisher: Chase Safe Deposit Company ca 1928, New York

Publication Date: 1928

Binding: Staplebound

Condition: Very good

Edition: First Edition.

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