Ball And Ball
Historic Lighting & Hardware

For over 65 years the craftsmen at Ball and Ball have been manufacturing the highest quality reproduction historically-styled hardware and lighting fixtures. These craftsmen have been trained in the historic methods of construction and have all seen and handled the original hardware. This is the key to producing accurate reproductions: "Understanding the Originals." Our reproductions can be found in the most important historic buildings in the country, from Independence Hall in Philadelphia and the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., to Iolani Palace in Hawaii and thousands of others, famous and not so famous.

HARDWARE
We are always adding new items to our already extensive line of historically accurate door, furniture, and cabinet hardware and lighting. This makes our standard line the most extensive available in the United States (maybe the world). In addition to our standard line, we do custom work every day: copying, restoring, rebuilding, and refinishing on almost anything metal. Our craftsmen work in brass, bronze, copper, tin, hand-forged iron, and cast iron.

LIGHTING
Ball and Ball creates interior and exterior lighting fixtures and lanterns in many styles. They're always crafted using the same techniques as the originals, allowing us to reproduce not only the fixture but also the character of its construction. It is the fine details, lost by most everyone else during reproduction, which give the old fixtures their great look. If we do not try to reproduce accurately and faithfully the fine historic craftsmanship of our ancestors, then we are doomed to lose it forever. All of our electrified fixtures, while faithfully recreating fine details, are available with the UL-listing for safety. In 1988 we purchased the remaining assets of the "Steinmetz" company, a well-known Philadelphia lighting manufacturer that had been in business since the late 1800s. This purchase has allowed us to go back in time and work from the actual historic patterns and drawings to produce these fixtures from America's Revival period.

Website: www.ballandball-us.com
E-Mail: bill@ballandball.com