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Suite of Door Furniture

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An extensive suite of best quality polished bronze door furniture dating from the turn of the 19th century. Comprising eleven rim locks; nine utterly complete (although one has a steel keep), each with two axe head handles, a keep and a key hole plate, a further two are missing their keeps and axe head back handles. From the same residence  and forming part of this suite is a bathroom lock and handles and two rim locks with ball handles and lock plates. Stamped by the manufacturer Gibbon of Wolverhampton and London. 

In 1670 ironmonger James Gibbon set up a workshop in Wolverhampton and by the close of the 19th Century was advertising as "the oldest established lock maker in Britain".

Each rim lock measures 6.25 in x 3 in x .75 in  

 

Item Code: 4021

£ 4250

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