Antique Builders’ Hardware, Knobs & Accessories
By Maud L. Eastwood  1982

224 pages

$19.50/$22.50 (3-Ring Binder)

This first comprehensive work defines door hardware of Colonial and Victorian America.  The research material was compiled using a multi-company approach.  Anticipated interest by users and collectors dictated that content also cover selected pre-knob devices and locks, plate and boxed.  There is an illustrated glossary of over sixty distinct pieces and 145 pages of hardware (largely knobs and plates, identified by year and design name) representing twenty companies.  (4 color pages)  Other features include special emblematic hardware, a collectors’ section and an index. 

36 pages

$6.50/$7.50 (Booklet)

A highly illustrated booklet featuring a potpourri of door hardware examples designed to appeal to collectors and to provide a tool for users.  Included are hundreds of knob designs as diverse as 1876 representational, Special Design Corbin (not found in catalogues), Art Nouveau, odd shapes, pull knobs, emblematic knobs for hotels, societies, schools, and governmental offices, as well as a section of 1894-1910 Sargent & Company hardware

118 pages

$20.50/$23.50 (Soft Cover)$25.50/$29.50 (3-Ring Binder)

This book was designed to be a three-part work to provide coverage of all items classified Fine Builders’ Hardware as found in 19th and early 20th century sources.  This first Section is devoted to a comprehensive study of latches, locks, strikes, keys, and their relationship, use, and application to doors of all types (passage and entry).  Sections II and II will cover the remaining items, lock trim to bird cage hooks.  An addenda of interesting hardware lore, extensive glossary, bibliography, and index complete the content of Section I that is sold in either a soft cover edition or a three-ring binder designed to accommodate the remaining sections at a later date.

118 pages (3-Ring Binder)

$35.00/ $65.00

 

A fabulous collection of photos assembled in an organized manner and then classified with an alphanumeric system that is becoming a universal identification system.  It includes over 1,000 doorknob photos with the soon to be added update of 150 additional knobs.  First update of 100 additional knobs plus cross-reference listings free.

230 pages

$10.00/$12.50 soft cover

A colorful book filled with pictures of vintage hardware from the 19th and early 20th century. It includes doorknobs, door pulls, doorbells, hinges, shutter hardware, locksets, and mail slots. A visual candy land for collectible antique hardware images.

Archival Material – Hardware Catalogues for Research and Education

Copies are available by special order only once a year due to the fragility of the catalogues.  Watch for the Archives Order Form in the July/Aug newsletter.  Prices vary according to catalogue.

202 pages
Signed Copy

$35.00 Includes S&H
Los Angeles residents add
8 1/4% sales tax

A beautifully photographed look at the creative possibilities of decorating with antique and contemporary American hardware including doorknobs, drawer pulls, locks, hinges and more.  A resource guide to dealers is included.  Order from Liz’s Antique Hardware 453 S. La Brea Los Angeles, CA 90036