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cremone bolt install detail

Posted on 24th October, by gbettenhausen in Recent Projects. No Comments
cremone bolt install detail

elevation for cremone bolt hardwareWe are manufacturing David Adler reproduction cremone bolts for a local home that will be installed on exterior doors that have an interlocking astragal.  The doors will have dummy levers (a design used by Benjamin Marshall during the same period).  Hardware in the formal areas will be finished in silver and the family/casual spaces will be un-lacquered brass. Watch for more photos of this project.


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