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Restoration hardware · Antiques · Old Towne Orange

Muff’s Hardware

Thousands of old knobs, hinges, pulls and locks, and someone who knows which one you need.

Tue–Sun · Closed Monday135 S. Glassell St.

Drawing of a brass bail drawer pull, measured 3 inches center to center3″ ccFig. 1 — Bail pull, Chippendale backplate
Plate 02

Bring the old one. We’ll find its match.

  1. 01

    Bring the old one in

    Bring the piece, the drawer, or a photo. Matching it is what we do: brass, nickel, iron and chrome, from ornate Victorian and Mission to the sleek 1960s.

  2. 02

    Measure center to center

    For drawers with two holes per handle, measure from the center of one hole to the center of the other. That number (cc) is the size.

  3. 03

    Or call, or email a photo

    Call during store hours, or email photos and measurements (JPEG) with the subject “HARDWARE”. Have the item or page in mind and we'll look for it.

3″ cc
Measure from the center of one hole to the center of the other.
Close-up of an old wooden drawer front with a small metal knob
Stock photo for mood · Erik Mclean / Unsplash
Plate 03

The Drawer Index

From the shop’s own shopping index. Thousands of pieces hang on the walls or wait in the drawers; stock changes all the time, so call before you drive.

A

  • Antique telephone parts

B

  • Barrister's bookcase hardware
  • Bed bolts
  • Bed rail fasteners
  • Bin pulls
  • Brass ball & claw feet
  • Brass bed balls
  • Brass railing
  • Bullet catches

C

  • Cabinet latches & pulls
  • Casters
  • Chandelier parts
  • China cabinet pulls
  • Clavos
  • Coat hooks
  • Colored glass doorknobs
  • Cup & plate stands
  • Curtain hardware

D

  • Desk hardware
  • Display case shelf parts
  • Door hardware
  • Door knockers
  • Speakeasy doors
  • Drawer pulls
  • Duncan Phyfe foot covers

E

  • Emtek door hardware
  • Escutcheons

F

  • Fiber replacement seats
  • File cabinet hardware
  • French pulls
  • French corners

G

  • Gate hardware
  • Glass drawer pulls
  • Glass caster coasters

H

  • Hall tree hooks
  • Heater grilles
  • Hinges
  • Hoosier cabinet parts

I

  • Ice box hinges & handles
  • Iron & rustic hardware

J

  • Jewelry box hardware
  • Jar & canister lids

K

  • Keyhole covers
  • Keys for necklaces
  • Kitchen cupboard latches

L

  • Lane cedar chest locks
  • Lamp & lighting parts
  • Locks & keys

M

  • Mailboxes
  • Mirror hardware
  • Mission pulls & handles
  • Morris chair parts
  • Moulding hooks

N

  • Square cut nails

O

  • Oriental hardware
  • Ornaments

P

  • Piano stool hardware
  • Picture frame corners
  • Purse latches
  • Phone cranks

R

  • Refinishing products
  • Repair parts
  • Ring pulls

S

  • Sewing machine parts
  • Shop bells
  • Slide bolts
  • Spice jars & labels
  • Spool cabinet items
  • Stair rail brackets
  • Stove parts

T

  • Three-chain light fixtures
  • Trunk locks & handles

U

  • Upholstery tacks

V

  • Victorian drops & pulls
  • Vintage pinback buttons
  • Victrola cranks

W

  • Wardrobe knobs
  • Window hardware & sash pulleys
  • Wood desk pulls
  • Wood leaf corners
An old brass lion-head door knocker on a weathered door
Stock photo for mood · Wolfgang Rottmann / Unsplash
Drawing of a faceted glass drawer knob, seen from the side
Fig. 2 — Glass knob
Drawing of a butt hinge with three screw holes per leaf
Fig. 3 — Butt hinge
Plate 04

A key for the lock you found.

Locks and keys, trunk locks and handles, Lane cedar chest locks, keyhole covers, even old keys to wear on a necklace. Found a locked trunk or a desk with no key? Bring it in and ask.

Drawing of an old skeleton keyFig. 4 — skeleton key
A pile of old brass skeleton keys
Stock photo for mood · Jason D / Unsplash
Plate 05

135 S. Glassell, a hundred years in.

  1. c.1924

    The building goes up

    135 S. Glassell is built, to the best of the shop's own research, around 1924.

  2. 1948–54

    F.W. Woolworth's

    For a few years it's a Woolworth's five-and-dime. It closes its doors on April 17, 1954.

  3. 1970s

    Muff's opens

    Muff's opens as an antiques and collectibles shop, named after Pat Hahn's grandmother. Today the hardware fills the walls and the drawers.

In print

Romantic Homes“Hardware Heaven”February 2003

DominoMuff's Oriental pulls, featuredOctober 2007

Plate 07

Come rummage.

135 S. Glassell St.
Orange, CA 92866Old Towne Orange, half a block south of the Plaza
Store hours
MondayClosed
Tuesday – Saturday11 am – 5 pm
Sunday12 – 4 pm

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Muff's at 135 S. Glassell St., Orange (cover photo of its Yelp listing)
The shop · photo from its Yelp listing