Solid Brass Eastlake Style Sash Lock

Readers; In the throes of returning my ""Morning Room"" to circa 1860-1890[rather than 1970], the last detail was to get rid of the worn out, ugly, circa 1960 sash locks, two of the four did not function. I got these for the Project. They look good in the Room, they work better than most 'big box' hardware, and, if you can talk and boil water at the same time, you can put these on. Even the screws were right, and they gave you one more than needed. The screws are soft metal, do not use an ""85 horsepower"" screw gun on these. It is a good effect for my old house. This is one item[of many[ that would look odd in a room of a different Era. So buy according to the age of the room/house.

I have been, over the years, been refurbishing certain items that I can make appear as original. Namely, overall appearance and finish of the early 1900's. The sash locks purchased are a great help in this endeavor.

I bought the aged/antique brass. Beautiful piece. Purchased to replace missing sash locks in an 1886 stick/Eastlake Victorian. Very similar appearance to the originals. The finish on this is similar to the hand-aged finish, but this piece was slightly lighter. This piece had less fine detail/sharpe edges than the hand-aged piece, but I'm not sure if that is intentional or simply due to variations in the manufacturing process. Between the two, I decided to go with this version due to the cost savings.

Good reproduction typically fits in place using the same screw holes when replacing older broken latches. The provided flat-head flat-blade #6 x 1/2"" screws match well but could be larger (#8 and/or 3/4"") to hold more securely, especially when reusing existing holes.

This house has several old window locks that were all painted shut and unusable. These new locks look awesome are

They look great and are just seriously cool operating.

On first 'out of the bag' inspection, top of moving lock has bloch marks in the relief design. Solid brass finish is nice and material is solid except the screws... really soft metal with a shallow slot for screw turn. Out of the 30 or so locks we purchased, I tossed one because the mechanical draw of the arm to the keeper was too sloppy. Over all, cost was equal to this reproduction... originals are spendy.

The product is OK overall, but it is considerably smaller than the original hardware it replaced. This resulted in having to install on both sashes much closer to the edge than the old hardware. The screws are also smaller than the original screws. Because of the size of the hole in the window lock, you can't use anything larger than a size 4 screw. Because I also had to use window shims (this had nothing to do with the product), I had to find longer screws. A size 6 screw would have been ideal (more secure, etc), but is too big for the hole in the hardware. It would have been nice if you listed the dimensions of the window lock on the website.

I actually used these as presentation case latches. They work well on larger size cases and my customer was thrilled with them!