Antique Mortise Lock

The parts of the table are mortised joinery. The locking mechanism is brass and is original to the table.

Each door is fitted with an ornate brass escutcheon and has a mortise box for locking, though the key is no longer with the piece.

Set includes 16 pieces: two doorknobs, two doorplates, a mortise lock, a strike plate, a spindle with two set screws, and six screws.

Set includes 15 pieces: two knobs, two doorplates, a mortise lock, a strike plate, a spindle with two set screws, and six screws.

The interior of the trunk is covered in traditional mint green paper. A mortise lock attaches to the front and does not include a key.

The half mortise lock itself is a rare double strike lock, which required a much higher level of skill to manufacture.

Despite the inherent weakness of an unstretched footing in a bench of this form, the piece is incredibly sturdy and stabile, owing in no small part to the split-wedge tenon-mortise j...

Each door is fitted with an ornate brass escutcheon and has a mortise box for locking. Thematically, this piece has lots of floral and foliate forms along with fully Solomonic column...

An excellent pair of mid-late 19th century side chairs in the Louis XV taste, they are crafted with precision using tenon-mortise joints locked together with pins that are just barel...

A work of highly precise and imaginative craftsmanship, the casework on this chest of drawers is simply outstanding, the underside of the case shows large dovetails locking tenon-mor...

Built to last the test of time, the frame is crafted with generous tenon-mortised members, the corners locked together permanently with tiny wooden pins.

Crafted during the late 18th to early 19th century, the chair is built to last the test of time with the tenon-mortised joints locked in place using tiny wooden pegs.

The back, front and sides are composed of solid single planks with deeply beveled edges set in a tenon-mortised frame, the joints locked in place with tiny wooden pegs.

An excellent pair of mid-to-late 19th century armchairs in the Louis XV taste, they are crafted with precision using tenon-mortise joints locked together with pins that are just bare...

Deeply carved rosettes in each knee hide the small wooden pegs driven through the carvings and locking the tenon-mortised construction of the frame together over the turned and taper...

Originally the wooden pegs that lock all tenon-mortised joinery together would have been nearly invisible under the paint and gesso, but shrinkage and expansions of the wood have mad...

And it was built to last the test of time with large tenon-mortised joints locked together in many areas with tiny wooden pins.

The rear legs of both chairs retain a pair of pegs locking the tenon mortised frame together. Crafted during the first quarter of the twentieth-century, it is preserved in outstandi...

The rails affix into the headboards on either side with tenon-mortise joints and lock together with threaded bolts from inside of each rail, these coupled with an L-bracket above the...

The chairs are constructed with tenon-mortise joinery, these locked permanently in place with small wooden pegs.

All corners are constructed with deep tenon-mortise joinery, the juncture locked in place with a tiny wooden peg for strength during an era where hide glues were not strong enough to...

The frame of the table is crafted with tenon-mortise joinery locked in place with double wooden pinning at each of the four corners.

Comes with attached escutcheons and a mortise lock. Minor scrapes and scratches. Once installed the door would swing inwardly towards the left.

This is a great set of antique octagonal or 8-point glass knobs with a silvered center, brass neck mounted, with brass rosettes on a door knob spindle, for use with a new or old mort...