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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 2831517, member: 56&quot;]They could be period English hinges.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your remark &quot;PROHIBITED! from engaging in brass foundries&quot; took me by surprise, but there were a series of Acts of Trade and Navigation (1651-1773) that put tight restrictions on colonial trade throughout the British Empire (not just America).&nbsp; The colonies were intended to provide raw materials to British manufacturers and to purchase manufactured goods from Britain.&nbsp; And transport was to be on British ships with British crews.</p><p><br /></p><p>Found this online:</p><p><i>Between 1660 and 1696 the British Parliament passed the Acts of Trade, which required all European goods bound for America to be shipped through England first. To this end, early colonists were only allowed to use British brass hardware.&nbsp; The Acts of Trade even outlawed brass foundries in the colonies.&nbsp; It wasn’t until the 1830’s that American manufacturers began to mass-produce their own hardware.</i></p><p><a href="https://www.nostalgicwarehouse.com/explore/style-guide/colonial/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.nostalgicwarehouse.com/explore/style-guide/colonial/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nostalgicwarehouse.com/explore/style-guide/colonial/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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