Russell & Erwin Manufacturing Company
New Britain, CT

Hardware Catalogs & Publications
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Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co., New Britain, Conn.
The Russell and Erwin Manufacturing Company’s Price List
1859
Erratic pagination: [i–v], vi–vii, [viii], [i–iv], [2], [v], vi–vii, [viii]–ix, [1–19], 20–218, 201–265.
9¾ x 6½.
$24.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co., New Britain, Connecticut
The Russell & Erwin Manufacturing Company’s Price List
[1863]
218 pp., 10½ x 7.
Titled on cover: “From Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co., 1860,” but 1860 has been altered to read “1863.”
Identical to 1860 catalog, but new prices have been supplied in manuscript.                                            
Lacking frontispiece, pp. iii–vi, 1–19, 26–28, 30–34, 36–42, 110–117, 131–138, 155–156, 168-169, 171–174, 185–186, 196–203, 208–209, and 212–215.
$12.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co., New Britain, Connecticut
Illustrated Catalogue of American Hardware
1864
116 pp., 16½ x 11.
$10.00
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Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co., New Britain, Connecticut
Russell & Erwin Manufacturing Company’s Catalogue and Price List of American Hardware
1866
219 pp., 10½ x 6¾.
$17.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co., New Britain, Conn.
Catalogue and Price List of American Hardware
1869
v, [1], 230 pp., 10¾ x 6¾.
Once used as a scrapbook: many pages stained; 49 pages excised (lacking pp. v, 3–4, 11–12, 15–16, 19–20,
25–26, 31–32, 35–36, 39–40, 49–50, 53–54, 57–58, 61–62, 65–66, 71–72, 75–76, 79–80, 83–84, 87–88, 93–
94, 99–100, 107–108, 113–114, 123–124, and 215–216).
$15.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co., New Britain, Conn.
Real Bronze Hardware for Private Residences and Public Buildings.
1870.  
87 pp., 12 x 9 ¼. 
$7.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co.
Descriptive Catalogue And Price List of The Russell & Erwin Manufacturing Co.
1871
vii, 250 pp., 11 x 7½
Includes tipped-in advertisement leaf following the title page: “Real Compression Bronze Door
Trimmings” incorporating a 6½ x 5½ mounted photograph of 34 various doorknobs and escutcheons.
Two price lists laid in: Revised Prices and Discounts, June 8, 1872 (15 pp.) and Revised Prices and Discounts, January, 1873 (5 pp.).
$22.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co., New Britain, Connecticut
Volume 1. Price List and Descriptive Catalogue of Hardware
1874
280 pp., 11 x 8.
$22.00
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Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co.
Volume 2. Real and Compression Bronze Builders’ Hardware, for Private Residences and Public Buildings.
1875.  
vi, 303–456 pp., 12 x 9.
Includes two supplemental pages dated July 16, 1877.
$12.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co., New Britain, Connecticut
Volume 3. Price List and Descriptive Catalogue
1875
pp. 601–1013, 11 x 7½.
$33.00
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Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co., New Britain, Connecticut
Price List and Descriptive Catalogue of Hardware. Volume V
1879
763 pp., 12½ x 10.
$60.00
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Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co.
Price List and Descriptive Catalogue of Hardware [Vol. 6].
1882.
[x], 514 pp., 12¼ x 10.
$40.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co.
Descriptive Catalogue and Price-List of Hardware, Volume VII.
1887.  
xxi, [1], 1011 pp., 12 ½ x 10.
$100.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co.
Wrought Steel Door Locks Illustrated and Described.
1891.
27 pp., 9½ x 7½.
$3.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co., New Britain, Connecticut
American Hardware
1892                                                    
138 pp., 11¾ x 9.
Lacking title page; title taken from front cover.
$11.00
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Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co.
Bronze-Plated Iron Hardware, Finish No. 3: Black Ground, Polished Bronzed Surface, and Ivory Black Iron Hardware.
March 15, 1893.
Illustrated supplement to Catalogue VII.
50 pp., 11½ x 9.
$4.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co.
Descriptive Catalogue and Price-List of Hardware, Volume VIII.
1894.
xxiv, 954 pp., 11½ x 9.
Two supplements bound in at front:
Columbia Cylinder Locks and Latches (26, 14 pp.);
Supplement No. 2, 15th January, 1896 (183 pp.)
$93.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co., New Britain, Connecticut
Russell and Erwin Mfg. Co. Album
ca. 1895
42 [i.e., 46] photogravure plates (some plate numbers repeated), 10½ x 8.
Hardware sizes and prices listed on verso of plates.
Lacking title page; title taken from spine.
$8.00
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Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co., New Britain, Connecticut
Supplement No. 2
1896
183 pp., 11¾ x 9¾.
$15.00
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Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co.
Builders’ Hardware.
1897.  
xiii, 276 pp., 7 ¾ x 5.
$24.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co.
Catalogue of Hardware, Volume 9.
1899.
[60], 997 pp., 10½ x 8.
$99.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co.
American Hardware Export Catalog.
1904.  
xvi, 215 pp., 10 ½ x 7 ½.
$18.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co., New Britain, Connecticut
American Hardware: Supplement No. 1 to Export Catalogue of 1904
May 1908
105 pp., 10½ x 7¾.
$9.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co., New Britain, Connecticut
Catalogue of Selected Russwin Hardware - Export
ca. 1909
85 pp., 11 x 9.
$8.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co.
Catalogue of Hardware, Volume Ten.
1909.  
xliv, 1017 pp., 12 x 10.
$91.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co., New Britain, Connecticut
No. 2 Price List Applying to Catalog, Volume 10
July 15, 1910
394 pp., 12 x 9¾.
Note: this is an unillustrated list of prices.
$31.00
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Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co., New Britain, Connecticut
No. 3 Price List Applying to Catalog, Volume 10
April 1915
153 pp., 12 x 9.
Note: this is an unillustrated list of prices.
$13.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co.
Illustrations of Buildings Equipped with Russwin Hardware.
ca. 1915.
80 leaves of plates, 9 x 6½.
$7.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co., New Britain, Connecticut
Album of 106 postcards showing buildings equipped with Russwin hardware.     
ca. 1915
$4.00
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Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co.
Russwin Hardware.
ca. 1915.  
71 pp., 8 x 5 ½.
$6.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co.
Catalogue of Hardware, Volume Eleven.
1920.  
xxxiii, 448 pp., 11 x 8.
Includes "Export Hardware Supplement to Catalogue Volume Eleven," 16 pp.
$38.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co., New Britain, Connecticut
Catalogue of Hardware, Volume Twelve
1921
448 pp., 11 x 8.
$37.00
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Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co., New Britain, Connecticut
Catalogue of Hardware: Volume Thirteen
1922
383 pp., 11 x 8.
$32.00
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Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co., New Britain, Connecticut
Catalogue of Hardware: Volume 14      
1923                
357 pp., 11 x 8.
$30.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co.
Catalogue of Hardware, Volume Fifteen.
1926.
xxx, 370 pp., 11 x 8.
$31.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co., New Britain, Connecticut
1928 Catalogue of American Hardware and Tools
1928
211 pp., 11 x 8.
$17.00
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Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co., New Britain, Connecticut
A Condensed Builders’ Hardware Manual and Ready Reference Guide . . .Reprinted from the Twenty-Third Edition of Sweet’s Architectural Catalogue
1929
[76] pp., 11 x 8½.
$6.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co., New Britain, Connecticut
[Russwin “S” Numbers]                       
1909–1934
Manuscript ledger listing item numbers and descriptions of special hardware manufactured by Russell & Erwin from 1909 to approximately 1934.
[328] pp., 13 x 8.
Note: original Ledger is in the Lock Museum of America.
$27.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co.
Catalogue of Hardware, Volume Sixteen.
ca. 1930.
xxxvi, 548 pp., 11 x 8.
$50.00
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co.
Russwin Residential Hardware of Distinction.
ca. 1940.
27 pp., 9 x 6.
$2.00
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