Looking for leads on good architectural salvage companies

I have been looking for sash lifts that I attach below, but it was not a popular model. It is a "Windsor" pattern used by the Reading Hardware Co. and was primarily done in cast iron with some in cast bronze. My house used the bronze versions on the first floor and iron ones upstairs. An two-room addition that we put on has brass sash locks on the windows, and I would like to put vintage lifts like these, polished shiny to match those locks, on the windows to better tie in with the rest of the house.

So, if anyone has a phone number or web site for a large architectural salvage yard that may have matches, I would appreciate it.

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Permalink Reply by Susan on August 29, 2009 at 10:52pm

Have you checked Van Dyke Restorer catalog? Not originals, but darn good reproductions. They are online. Some really cool old house stuff.

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Permalink Reply by Phil on August 29, 2009 at 11:15pm

Van Dyke's does not sell repros of this one. I would take a repro, and Crown City and others sell exact castings in cast iron, but I am holding out for the cast bronze/brass ones. I am a patient man, but it has been 6 years, so I am starting to give up hope. I have contacted all of the above leads without success.

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Permalink Reply by Susan on August 29, 2009 at 11:25pm

You have more patience than I. I would have started over with broze/brass reproductions. The original really is pretty though. Good luck.

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Permalink Reply by jane on August 30, 2009 at 1:08pm

I will stop by a place I know in Brattleboro, VT, next time I go through, that de-constructs old houses and has lots of pieces. I don't know if they do mail order, but I'll find out. Their business card once sat here on my desk. I've forgotten the name, but not how to get there.

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Permalink Reply by Phil on August 30, 2009 at 9:49pm

Super. Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by jane on September 6, 2009 at 10:28am

The company is ReNew building materials & salvage inc - renewsalvage.org.
Of course, for me as good a place to wander as I can imagine! such beautiful old growth lumber!

But no old sash lifts this trip.

About 6' x6' of shelving with boxes of window and door parts - quite a lots of new shiny lifts still in plastic - looked like careful reproductions too.
I had fun poking, hoping to find just what you needed stuck behind, under the stuff you don't want. Unfortunately no luck.
I'm hoping to find a door latch that matches those in my house - c. 1815. Like you, I can buy something close, but would rather wait for the real thing.
When I go again, I'll look for you as well as for me.