Interior Detail of safe in Mrs Carnegie's Bedroom on first floor Digital image of SU/759

Description Interior Detail of safe in Mrs Carnegie's Bedroom on first floor Digital image of SU/759

Date 1982

Catalogue Number SC 772646

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of SU 759

Scope and Content Safe in Mrs Carnegie's bedroom, Skibo Castle, Highland This shows the metal safe in Mrs Carnegie's bedroom, where she would have stored jewellery and other valuable items. The key in the centre unlocks the door which is opened by a large flat handle. The safe is completely fireproof and is concealed from burglars by being sunk into a wall behind wood panelling. Mrs Carnegie would have owned very valuable jewellery which she would not have been able to wear all the time. The safe kept her valuable items out of reach of staff, visitors and burglars. Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was born in Scotland and made a fortune in the steel industry in the United States of America. Once his daughter was born he decided that she should have a Scottish home, and at the end of the 19th century he bought a large Baronial house at Skibo built in 1880 by Clarke & Bell. In addition to the £85,000 purchase price, he spent a further £2 million in the creation of an even larger mansion, constructed between 1899 and 1903 to the designs of Ross & Macbeth. In 1981 his daughter Margaret decided to sell the estate, and the castle lay empty until 1990 when Peter de Savary paid £10 million for the castle and the 2,832-hectare estate. Some £30 million was then invested in its transformation into the Carnegie Club, a private residential golf and sporting club. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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