Description: #1 source for Colonial and Early American antique hand forged hinges and handles. The finest period details and historically accurate restoration hardware and accessories.
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Welcome to the Old Smithy Shop. Makers of authentic colonial hand forged hardware .
The Old Smithy Shop creates authentic colonial hardware with unsurpassed beauty. Handcrafted and hand forged by our blacksmiths under the tutelage of New England Master Blacksmith Franklin Horsley. Our Colonial Handles and Hinges have delicate details and gentle curves which reflect the high degree of skill accomplished by the Smithy. These qualities are particularly true of period hardware in the more sophisticated areas of America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when iron was brought from Engl
The Metropolitan Museum of Art fittingly displayed Franklin's colonial hardware . The Wadsworth House of Harvard University and the Franklin Pierce Presidential Home, as well as, many historic sites are dressed with his period hardware.