At last! Some real treasure in this old house. We had taken all of the upstairs doors off to do the floors. In the process, one of them broke in half. Months passed, and I finally demanded that the doors be rehung, but we needed to replace the broken hinge. We went to
Construction Junction where we found a very close match, but it was encrusted in layers of paint, as were our original hinges. So we decided to strip them while we had them off the doors. We soaked them in some kind of solvent, and then had to go after them with a wire brush and dental tools. It took over two hours to do one door's worth of hinges, and we have a couple more doors to go. But I think it's worth it. The hinges turned out to be incredibly beautiful.