“New Old Stock” (NOS)
Our first choice in restoration efforts at Ryan is to repair existing hardware. If that’s not possible or its missing and we can identify it through records or historic photos, we look for “new old stock” (NOS) that matches and then we might go for making reproductions.
In this case, we are planning to recreate a few historic structures that were lost over the years, and so finding this cache of (18) NOS vintage push button switchplates, made in the USA in Hartford, Connecticut by Hart & Hegeman Mfg for use in some of those future projects is good fortune, indeed!
