Note that "colonial" depends a lot on where and when. Out here iron was used very sparingly in colonial times as it was shipped over from Spain to Veracruz and then came by donky back all the way up to Santa Fe NM!
Check your local area is the best advice and beware of 80 year old colonial revival hardware lurking as original.
Also ask them if they want to pony up for real wrought iron like the originals rather then modern mild steel. (Switch over being somewhere between post ACW to around the 1930's)
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Thomas
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