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Hello JACK316@AOL.COM

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1. If you advise the country you are located in, it would be very useful.
   
2. Do you have a sample of the handle, a complete one, even if it is broken?
3. Can you Post your reply, with a digital photo insert picture, showing the handle alongside a ruler, so as to establish the size?
4. What is the handle used for - Specify: Cupboard, kitchen door, front door etc?
   

There is a specialist foundry (Lisa Brass) in Auckland, New Zealand, which specialises in exactly what you ask, they cast and polish etc, copies of articles going back over 200 years, and in short runs too, but of course you may well be on the far side of the planet, and air-freight costs can be appreciable..

Most brass foundries will do a special run, providing they have an original.

Reply here please with.... and of course the picture too.

Kind Regards....

Thank you . Yes to all your questions. I agree.

I am in USA, (California.) ... planning to take photos. It is a handle for furniture. The size is odd. Malleability is lost ...and it just broke after 40+ years. appreciate the NZ foundry info. I am taking a while to work on this. I would probably need to get more than one for when the next handle breaks! The process of which you speak is exactly what I imagine it would take to replace these....mold of actual item. etc. I may get back to you as I ponder this. Thank you.

Many art foundries can do this as well. They will need a sample to work from to make a rubber mold to make the wax patterns. There are also some restoration shops (there is one here in Portland, OR) that might be of assistance. The major factor in deciding what you want to do would be cost and time.

thanks again,

The proximity of Portland sounds good. Do you know the name of the art foundry/ or Restoration shop there in PortLAND? I am in California. It sounds easiest because it is closest. I would definitely do photos and send sample as i make decision. i would need probably 6 of these for furniture drawers. I will re-check this SF bay area again first. maybe there is something here closer. size is obsolete. thanks again. LDR

Yellow Pages can yield good local leads for this sort of thing. Try "foundries" and "casting - metals".

thank you...looking into it. need all ideas as to how to go about my search. LDR

There are a couple of places, one is called Rejuvenation Inc. located here in Portland. They also have a web site at rejuvenation.com . There is another place I found on line called Restoration Hardware.

Hope this helps.