Re: Hall's Safe & Lock Co. 1893 or older...
I looked your safe up in a book at it has 9 false gates on the driver wheel. Your lock mechanism is called a Hall's Straight Tailpiece. With a 130 number dial your drop in is at 97.5 With the dial at 0 under the opening index, 97.5 should be at 9 O'Clock exactly.
While applying turning pressure on your door handle, turn it counterclockwise to open. The dial will not stop when correct combo is entered, all gates must be aligned and then the handle turned which moves the tailpiece (horizontal bar into the aligned gates)
Testing the dial by turning handle CCW, while dialing will get you stuck in the 9 false gates and the one true gate.
I'm running out before the blizzard hits, when I come back I'll post some photos of the inside of your safe.
Squelchtone