Before you roll up your sleeves to clean brass, consider this: Sometimes the beauty of an antique brass object is ... For functional elements, such as locks, hinges, hardware, or light fixtures ...

These brass locks are handmade with triple locking mechanism ... Today, it is reduced to a decorative piece bought by connoisseurs or antique shops. The tradition of handmade locks is a dying ...

Watch as Michael Hamson shows some of the highly-detailed padlocks from the collection - worth thousands of pounds.

Selling antiques is a lonely business in Washington. And it’s about to get a little lonelier. After 38 years in operation, the Brass Knob, one of the last architectural-antiques stores in the ...