Furniture Hardware
Choices of hardware styles and materials expanded during the Industrial Revolution. Primary design influences were imported from England as before with the additional innovations including mass-produced and mass-marketed hardware, building and furniture hardware with a single stylistic theme, and the founding of America's most prominent hardware manufacturers.
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Backplates
Teardrop handles of cast brass with back plates that were attached by a cotter pin characterize William and Mary period hardware (1690-1720). This was one of the earliest true brasses, replacing the w ... View All Backplates »
Bed Hardware
Queen Anne Period hardware (1720-1750) has full brasses and had bail handles (half-circles). Engraved back plates, narrow bails, and bat-winged designs were common. ... View All Bed Hardware »
Bin Pulls
Chippendale Period (1750-1785) pieces feature large, heavy brasses, often with Asain influence. The escutcheons and the heavy back-plates were generally of the same size and design. The willow handle ... View All Bin Pulls »
Brackets and Stays
Much of the hardware during the American Empire Period (1815-1840) displays ostentatious and figural ornamentation. Glass and solid brass knobs also came into popularity during this period as well. ... View All Brackets and Stays »
Casters, Caps & Glides
Victorian period hardware (1840-1899) delivered a rebirth of the teardrop handle, unlike the small teardrop handle of the William and Mary period, the Victorians combined wood with a stamped brass bac ... View All Casters, Caps & Glides »
Catches and Latches
The Federal Period (1785-1815); consists of the Hepplewhite style with oval pulls of stamped brass featuring concentric raised ovals or a simple design on the surface, the Sheraton style with classica ... View All Catches and Latches »
Coat Hooks
Art Deco was the first widespread American decorative style that originated in France rather than Britain. It was also the first decorative style that emulates the future rather than the past. Charact ... View All Coat Hooks »
Drawer Pulls
Borrowing themes and forms from the past, The Revival styles of design sought to elicit the nostalgia and sanctuary of past times and faraway places in the heart of American suburbia. Using techniques ... View All Drawer Pulls »
Drawer Stops
When refinishing a cabinetry, a common problem is missing doorstops, causing the drawers to go in too far. Determine what kind of stops are missing and where they should be. American Depression furni ... View All Drawer Stops »
Eyebolts
After several years of aesthetic lavishness, Art Deco merged with the Bauhaus-born International Style to create Streamline Moderne. The style emphasized sweeping, aerodynamic curves, and circular for ... View All Eyebolts »
File Cabinet Hardware
American culture, now inundated with hard copy, used relatively little paper in 1900. Requiring less storage space, file cabinet makers of the day could focus on form as well as function. The simplic ... View All File Cabinet Hardware »
Hinges
Smaller furniture hinges were used for lighter internal and cupboard doors. The most decorative is the cocks-head hinge, in use in the Elizabethan period and the first half of the 17th century. A simp ... View All Hinges »
Ice Box Hardware
The Reverend Marcel Audiffren, a Cistercian monk and physics teacher, devised the earliest successful solution to the problem of containing the ice box refrigerant charge. In France in the early 1890' ... View All Ice Box Hardware »
Keyhole Covers
The period between the 14th and 17th century was marked by artistic accomplishment in lock making. American Locksmiths became skilled metalworkers, and were developing an international fallowing. Fe ... View All Keyhole Covers »
Knobs
The furniture knob was less common in earlier periods of furniture construction, which may be explained by their fundamental vulnerability. Robust Medieval and Jacobean furniture was designed to survi ... View All Knobs »
Locks and Keys
In the mid 1700s, locks were scarce in the Colonies and most were copies of European mechanisms. With the founding of the Republic and the new prosperity, there was a growing demand for sturdy locks, ... View All Locks and Keys »
Mix 'N Match Pulls
Create your own Single Post Pulls with this line of hardware! FOUR Styles of Backplates and FIVE Styles of Drop Pulls create TWENTY combinations for a custom fit to any restoration job. ... View All Mix 'N Match Pulls »
Nails and Rivets
Early furniture nails were usually square nails in section; the earliest antique nails were individually forged by hand. The head of the nail was formed by bending it over to form an L-shape or by str ... View All Nails and Rivets »
Pie Safe Tins
Pie Safes were made across the US, however those with punched tins were mainly crafted in Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina. The Alabama pie safe was usually equipped with screen wire rather than ... View All Pie Safe Tins »
Screws
Archimedes is credited with inventing the screw in the 3rd century BC, however his screw was not a fastener but two contraptions incorporating screw-type devices. One device was a water pump; still us ... View All Screws »
Single Post Pulls
The waning years of the 19th century gave rise to the flamboyant Victorian style of hardware design as well as the traditionally orientated Aesthetic style. The decades just before and immediately fo ... View All Single Post Pulls »
Small Box Hardware
During the reign of India�s the Emperor of Annam, valuables were sealed within large blocks of wood that were placed on small islands or submerged into pools within the inner courts of the palace. Rav ... View All Small Box Hardware »
Spool Cabinet Hardware
Copper was the first non-precious metal employed by the Sumerians and Chaldeans of Mesopotamia approximately 6,000 years ago. Developing their skill in copper fabrication, the rudiments of this practi ... View All Spool Cabinet Hardware »
Table Hardware
One of the best-known proponents of traditional ironwork was Polish-born Samuel Yellin who studied his craft in Russia in the late 19th century. Immigrating to Philadelphia in 1906, Yellin perfected a ... View All Table Hardware »
Tea Cart Wheels
A Philadelphia Chippendale Pie Crust Tilt Top Tea Table. c 1760-1780. Mahogany. Hand Carved. Claw and Ball Foot. Birdcage support and carvings column, tapered and fluted. Legs have elongated flowing a ... View All Tea Cart Wheels »
