I ran "HL Hinges" through www.google.com and came up with a few web pages
which might be helpful.  Some places still make these things and they come
in a wide variety and sizes, and some pages have interesting price lists
which might help you compare with old blacksmith shop books and get an idea
of relative cost for the different sizes through time.

(work backwards through the addresses for home pages)

http://www.buildingconservation.com/articles/doors/doorfurn.htm
http://www.ballandball-us.com/ironfurniturehinges.html
http://www.ballandball-us.com/brasscabhinges.html
http://www.garbes.com/hardware/forgspec.html
http://www.mtsu.edu/%7eejohnson/dating/other_hw.htm
http://www.fagansforge.com/hinges.htm

Some other things mentioning HL hinges:
http://departments.mwc.edu/hipr/www/inventories/virginia/spotswood,john.htm

I didn't even try "wrought hinges"

        Dan W.


At 04:54 PM 5/18/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Currently I am investigating the site of French Azilum, a late 18th-
>/early 19th-century colony of refugee French aristocrats.  I am looking
>for sources, primary or secondary, historical or archaeological that
>relate architectural hardware such as H and HL hinges to house size and
>quality and hence potentially to class or staus.  Archaeological sources
>that I have seen are mostly descriptive and pay little or no attention to
>issues of production (technological sophistication) or supply side issues
>that may indicate that certain architectural details are more likely "high
>status" indicators that other more mundane architectural hardware (nails,
>window glass, etc.).
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Rob Mann
>Anthropology Department (for better or worse)
>SUNY Binghamton
>Binghamton, New York
>e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>