Door pull - for mark737

OK @mark737 , since you seem able to find both vintage furniture and hardware online to a supernatural extent, here is my challenge for you. It is a turn of the century (circa 1895) pocket door pull that I have been searching for without success, for more than 20 years. Made of brass with dimensions shown. I've tried architectural salvage places, brimfield flea many times, ebay, etc. I have seen many similar ones that are about this length but significantly narrower. Unfortunately this needs to have the given height and width since it fits in a routed hole in the door. Plus the fact that I have another 11 of them installed so really want a match. Keyhole or not in the middle does not matter.

Of course anyone else who knows where to find obscure hardware, please chime in. That is your mission - if you choose to accept.

 

If you can't find a match, and depending on how much money you want to throw at it, you may be able to find a local backyard foundry to do a one off for you. You could make the finish close with some artificial aging techniques.

Or do a 3D print of it and faux paint it.

Just tossing a couple ideas out there.

 

Difficult to find something like this that was not mass produced in standard sizes. There is one on Ebay now, but as you've found, it is narrower than yours. I'll keep an eye out at salvage shops, like this one I visited recently, Picker's Paradise in San Antonio. They don't have a website but you can try calling them to see what they have.

 

Thanks for the thoughts. I try any new architectural antique place I find while traveling, but I’ve been doing minimal traveling since covid. Hopefully HOPEFULLY that will change.

I also looked into 3D printing, but the shape was too complicated for me to define for 3D printer. I haven’t tried pricing a brass duplicate made since I assume that would be horrendously expensive. So for now I just keep looking...