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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 4428254, member: 6444&quot;]That is an unusual escutcheon plate, turn of century perhaps? Worth looking, but I doubt you find an exact match. But you are lucky, it is very simple and easy to reproduce yourself. Just find a sheet of scrap brass, trace the shape, and cut it out with a fine tooth saw then file the edges. Ammonia fumes can be used to match patina.</p><p><br /></p><p>Skeleton keys are easy to find, most antique stores have a drawer of them. Bring in the lock, or trace the size, to make it more likely to find ones that fit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your other pieces are shelf pins, they were used at the turn of the century, around 1900. I have original built-in book shelves in my home library (house circa 1895) that use those, and a few were missing. I tried hard looking for recent replacement shelf pins that would work, and finally found some that kind of worked, though definitely not as well as the originals. Pic below. They allowed me to use the shelves until I found some originals.</p><p><br /></p><p>I finally found a few original ones mixed in with miscellaneous unidentifiable door hardware, but it wasn’t easy. I doubt you’ll find a whole bag of originals unless you luck into a tear down at an architectural salvage place.</p><p><br /></p><p>These days I would try using a 3D printer to make some out of strong plastic. Once you define the shape, you can turn out as many as you need.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or you could look for the type I showed a pic of, since they worked well enough as a stop gap. If you can’t find them at a local hardware store, pm me.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]378883[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]378884[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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