Brass furniture pull with close-up of the name of the back of one of the pulls. Very few pulls were marked and the origin of these has not been positively established. A brass founder named S. Parker did work in the Philadelphia area in the eighteenth century. Courtesy of Colonial Williamsburg
Spun brass basin by Hiram Hayden of Waterbury, Conn. This must have been one of his earliest products since it bears the patent date 1851. From the collection of H.J. Kauffman
Spun brass basin by Hiram Hayden of Waterbury, Conn. This must have been one of his earliest products since it bears the patent date 1851. From the collection of H.J. Kauffman