Builder's hardware: fine locks, artistic designs in door and window trimmings.
A 1903 trade catalogue issued by the Simmons Hardware Company, a St. Louis hardware supplier, offering fine locks and decorative door and window trimmings to builders and retail hardware dealers. The pictures are plain engraved line drawings of mortise locks, knobs, escutcheon plates and keys, each labelled with a catalogue number and page reference, so a designer can take from them a dense, orderly vocabulary of Victorian-era hardware shapes and ornamental border patterns.
