[TheForge] Cremone Bolt

Mon Aug 18 02:12:00 2003

I recently saw a specialty hardware add listing them at roughly $200.00, for
mass-produced with lock.  Still not cheap.

Grant
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Brown" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 8:02 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Cremone Bolt

> At 15:50 08/17/03 -0500, you wrote:
> >hello;
> >nearly every cremone bolt system i have seen is
> >brass or bronze. not many steel or iron one.
> >that said is this person prepared to buy the price
> >for it?
> >
> >handmade brass/bronze cremone bolt system is easily
> >$1500.00+ usd. with any kind of handmade lock works
> >tact on other $250.00 to $500.00 usd. must be some
> >shed to rate a $2000.00 usd cremone bolt system.
>
> Probably more like
> $1,000.00usd.  See:
http://www.kilianhardware.com/kilian/loccrembolwl.html
> for a brass one at $667 (locking type, lever handle rather than egg
> nob).  But even at $1,000 it's pricey.  Someone ought to contact these
> folk, it'd be a good job.  Even if one doesn't want to build the lockworks
> from scratch, there are plenty of old locks around that could probably be
> well fit to a project like this.
>
>
> Dave Brown
> Heritage Smithing
> Green Bay, WI
> ABANA, UMBA, GoM, MODA, ARG
>
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