Builder's hardware; a manual for architects, builders and house furnishers . ronze, per set Sash-pivots, bronzed-iron, per set Surface sash-centres, P. & F. Oorbin, brass, per set Surface sash-centres, Wollensak, bronze No. 4, per set Surface sash-centres, Wollensak, bronzed-iron, per set Surface sash-centres, Hopkins & Dickinson, bronze, per set. Transom-catch, per dozen Transom and cupboard catch, bronze, per dozen Transom and cupboard catch, bronzed-iron, per dozen Transom-catch, bronze, per dozen Wollensaks transom-lifter, bronzed Wollensaks transom-lifter, nickel-plated American transom-l
Builder's hardware; a manual for architects, builders and house furnishers . ronze, per set Sash-pivots, bronzed-iron, per set Surface sash-centres, P. & F. Oorbin, brass, per set Surface sash-centres, Wollensak, bronze No. 4, per set Surface sash-centres, Wollensak, bronzed-iron, per set Surface sash-centres, Hopkins & Dickinson, bronze, per set. Transom-catch, per dozen Transom and cupboard catch, bronze, per dozen Transom and cupboard catch, bronzed-iron, per dozen Transom-catch, bronze, per dozen Wollensaks transom-lifter, bronzed Wollensaks transom-lifter, nickel-plated American transom-lifter, coppered American transom-lifter, nickel-plated Stellers transom-lifter, bronzed-iron Stellers transom-lifter, bronze Overells transom-lifter, bronzed Excelsior transom-lifter, bronzed Wollensaks skylight-lifter, No. 12, each Hills skylight-lifter, each Price. $ .62 .62 .17 .95 .50 .53 .50 .55 16; Chapter X. Prices for transom-lifters are for a medium 4-foot rod and for a single c===J*Hi CHAPTER XL Locks, Chapter xi. < TINY one who should /A visit the mediaevalmuseums of Europe,and should chance tosee among the curi-osities of iron - worksome of the elaboratelywrought and apparent-ly intricate locks ofthe fourteenth, fifteenthand sixteenth centuries,would hardly think of comparing those unwieldly and cumber-some devices with the locks that are turned out in suchquantities by our best modern manufactories. And yet, if theolder contrivances are examined attentively it will be seen thatthe difference between the old and the new is one of finishand delicacy, rather than of idea or mechanism; and that, withthe exception of a few noteworthy inventions for obtaining agreater security against picking by an ordinary thief, the locksof to-day are exactly the same, in principle and arrangement,as those which were made centuries ago. Indeed, it is ratherstrange that with all the inventions which have
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