Yale safe lock id and info for first timer
I have limited experience with lock picking but I'm willing to give this a shot. I also have the technical means to build an auto dialer if I end up unable to manipulate the lock. I'm hoping someone can give me more information about what I'm looking at to get me started.
The safe was made by the Manganese Steel Safe Co. The list of patents on the lower placard leads me to think this safe was made around 1905. The two dials look identical, but the top one has some damage on the front. The text on the dials was hard to photograph, but reads:
When I first played with the lock the top dial spun freely but the bottom lock only moved from 95ish to 5ish. The wheel spun ~5-10 times in either direction. One direction stopped with a hard stop, the other end was softer and felt more like it was jamming. I played with the handle at the bottom a bit, but it jammed up so I left it alone. The door didn't move at all.
I went home and researched the safe and learned from the patents that the handle at the bottom is for leveraging the door open if it gets stuck. With that knowledge I went back the next day but I found that the safe was in a totally different state. The bottom dial now freely spins like the top dial. The wheel also freely spins. I tried playing with the handle and after some forcing the door making a crunching noise and popped out a little.
I'm guessing that the safe was unlocked when I first saw it, but it somehow got relocked (I think someone messed with it). Everyone thought the safe was locked because the door was jammed shut, but no one knew to force the handle to free it. The door now wiggles in place which leads me to think if I had the combination we could open it.
I'm new at this so these might be silly questions. What are the two dials for? Was the safe probably unlocked the first time I saw it? Does the jammed up lower dial mean that I only need one dial's combination to unlock the safe? Is there any way to tell what kind of locks these are, how many numbers are in the combination, and what the dialing pattern is?
I didn't take a great photo of it, but the top dial seemed to have two markings that could be the opening index. In the last photo of my set the first mark is at ~99, the second is at ~62. I might need to take a better picture, but which one is the correct one? The lower dial seemed to only have one marking.
I appreciate any info you guys can give me!