still in business, maybe they would have a record of the combination?
I'll second that thought.
Last year I bought a barely used Lincoln automobile from a repair shop owner who was selling it for a customer of his, the son of an elderly gentleman who'd bought it new and passed away shortly thereafter.
When I was putting my car papers in the glove compartment I discovered two things "hiding" inside it:
A "Happy Birthday Dad" greeting card with an unused local restaurant gift certificate in it.
A little leather bag containing a very beautiful and old looking rosary.
I called the place which sold the car to me and got the name and address of the son, then mailed the items back to him that same day.
The next day we got a call from his wife thanking us and reminding us that both she and her husband had worked for our family business some 15 years ago, then later they got hitched. (Small world, huh?)
The happy ending was that the wife looked around and found the keyless door entry combination for the car and told it to me so I didn't have to pay a dealer to fiddle a new one into the car's computer.
An Irish-Catholic guy I knew about 40 years ago said that his family called stuff you found and kept which you knew belonged to someone else "The Devil's host" and that hanging onto it would bring you continuous bad luck. I choose to believe he knew what he was saying.
Jeff