Pair 2 Antique Myers Stay On Sliding Track Barn Door Rollers Cast Iron Hardware

Pair Antique Vintage Richards Wilcox Cast Iron Sliding Barn Door Rollers 542B. Pair Antique Vintage Richards Wilcox Cast Iron Sliding Barn Door Rollers 542B. Each measures about 11 3/4″ long; the pair weighs 5 pounds 14 ounces. Both appear to be in fine condition and good order with a nice aged patina – see detailed photos. In 1880 the Richards Manufacturing Co. of Aurora, Illinois, began manufacturing hardware for rolling doors, barn doors and fire doors. By 1902 the Wilcox Manufacturing Company, also of Aurora, Illinois, was manufacturing foot-powered grindstone frames. By 1908 the Wilcox company had started making woodworking vises and was also manufacturing door hardware. In 1910 the two companies merged to become the Richards-Wilcox Manufacturing Co. In 1912 a Canadian subsidiary was incorporated, the Richards-Wilcox Canadian Co., Ltd., of London, Ontario. Both the US and Canadian operations would also make vises, especially woodworkers’ bench vises; based on the number of surviving examples, it appears that the Canadian subsidiary was more successful with this product line. It would be manufactured until at least 1964.