Builder's hardware : fine locks, artistic designs, in door and window trimmings.
A 1903 trade catalogue issued by the Simmons Hardware Company, a hardware supplier, for builders and tradesmen choosing door and window fittings. The pictures are plain black-and-white engravings of individual locks, keys and hasp fittings drawn in clean outline with light shading, shown against plain backgrounds. A designer might take from them the simple, sturdy profiles of late nineteenth-century mortise locks, round knobs and escutcheon plates as reference for period hardware detail.
