Vintage Handles

Vintage Handles: Period Character, Modern Fit Old houses and old furniture deserve hardware that looks like it belongs — without the stripped threads, odd sizes and missing fixings that come with salvage. Our vintage handles collection is new hardware in traditional forms: 37 drop rings, bars, cups and knobs in aged finishes from £2.49, all… Read more →

Vintage Handles: Period Character, Modern Fit

Old houses and old furniture deserve hardware that looks like it belongs — without the stripped threads, odd sizes and missing fixings that come with salvage. Our vintage handles collection is new hardware in traditional forms: 37 drop rings, bars, cups and knobs in aged finishes from £2.49, all on standard modern hole centres.

The Forms

The Lancer drop-ring pull is the collection's signature — a hinged ring that hangs flat and swings to pull, straight off a Victorian scullery drawer. The Ippudo traditional bar and Vandon T-bar carry farmhouse character in antique brass and matt black. Turned and cup-style knobs complete the furniture vocabulary; the knob-side of the story continues in vintage knobs and drawer-specific pieces in vintage drawer handles.

Finishes With Age Built In

Antique brass leads — darker and softer than polished brass, the tone of hardware that's been touched for a century. Matt black reads as old iron without the rust, and aged copper tones warm pine and painted furniture. All are stable lacquered finishes: the aged look is manufactured in, not waiting to develop, so they stay as bought without polishing. The wider aged-brass range across all hardware types is at antique brass handles.

Where Vintage Hardware Belongs

Period kitchens — shaker, in-frame, cottage — where modern minimal handles would jar. Furniture restorations: dressers, chests, washstands re-handled to era. And the deliberate contrast play: a drop ring on a sleek modern door, aged metal against fresh paint, which works precisely because it's clearly intentional. Cup pulls for drawers continue at cup handles.

Modern Practicalities

Standard hole centres (64mm-320mm across the collection), M4 threads, fixings in every box — vintage forms that bolt onto modern carcasses and flat-pack furniture without drama. Measuring and fitting guidance shared with the main cupboard handles collection applies here unchanged.

Ordering

Free UK delivery and fast dispatch. Restoring a specific piece? Order one handle first and hold it against the timber — aged finishes shift character on oak versus pine versus paint, and the right choice is the one that looks like it was always there.

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