In process: 19th and 20th century hardware from a time-capsule store in Verviers

In the past weeks we have helped to empty an 18th century timber framed house that was filled to the brim with tons and tons of historical hardware. Nails, rivets, levers, anciens wall plugs, cabinet handles, hand tools, screws, … almost without exception produced before 1960. In the following days we will start unpacking and documenting all these treasures. Most materials will be added simultaneously to our webshop and physical shop, giving equal opportunity to all of our customers to purchase a little piece of technological history. we hope to add new products on a daily basis.

# Update 6/12/2017: we changed our strategy for the unpacking of these materials. We’re in the process of doing a first rough sort. Items that we have in too large quantities, that are unknown to us, and all kinds of weird objects are added to 5 large tables in our showroom and sold on the spot for (0,05 to 2 € / pc.). We’ll add more items to our online shop once this is done.

ps: the Walloon public archeological services took the initiative of making a very thorough documentation of this remarkable site. They took a sample of each of the more than 5000 different products, and added this to their archive!