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Founded by Steven Miller and Stephen Oppenheim, Hippo Hardware has become a mecca for creative, energetic and intelligent people. This website is meant to contain a sampling of what we offer in our giant three-story building. Our focus is on hardware, lighting, plumbing, and architecture from the 1850s-1960s. You can think of us as a fancy junk store or a messy antique store. The spirit of Hippo Hardware is to rejoice in the individual, the unique, and the original.
We purchase and trade every day for cash or trade credit.
We ship worldwide. Normal shipping time within the United States is 4-6 weeks.
Our Mission is to recycle the past to make a more livable future. When Hippo Hardware orginally formed, the word "recycling" hadn't been invented. The notion of selling things that many people threw away was considered strange at best. Hippo Hardware began out of Steven Miller and Stephen Oppenheim's vision for creating a business that could simultaneously provide a much needed resource for home restorers, artists, and craftsmen and create a fun, supportive working environment for all of it's employees.
At Hippo we rejoice in all sorts of fun projects brought in by employees and customers alike. In the past we've wired a blender into a table lamp, made door knobs into coat hooks, and searched for oven cord to finish a young girl's science project. Hippo Hardware contains four major departments: Lighting, Plumbing, Hardware, and Architecture. Also sprinkled about the store we have many things like antique coffee grinders, old picture frames, vases, and car repair manuals. We do have a UL certified lighting shop to wire any purchases you make or to repair a light you already own. All lighting is available in custom lengths and many finishes. Below is a brief sampling of items you can expect to find in each department.
Hardware:
Victorian doorknobs, slide bolts, window latches, butterfly hinges, hand forged iron door pulls, new and used mechanical doorbells, pulls in brass, chrome, nickel, oil rubbed bronze, iron, wood, glass, porcelain, and plastic, old glass cabinet and door knobs in green, blue, white, clear, purple, amber, and opalescent, buckets of used door hinges, several drawers of old skeleton keys, ball tip hinge pins, upholstry tacks, and hooks.
Plumbing:
Clawfoot bathtubs, pedestal sinks, professionally rebuilt sinks, toilet and bathtub valves, glass towel bars, new and used tumbler holders, porcelain cross top hot/cold knobs, a wide selection of reproduction bathroom fixtures, clawfoot tub shower surrounds, and high tank toilets.
Lighting:
Crystal chandeliers, slipper shade fixtures and individual shades, japan-finished gas electrics, mission ceiling fixtures, a wide selection of sconces, table lamps, floor lamps, catalogues of crystals available for individual ordering, colored crystals, new and used glass shades, light bulbs, pan fixtures, commerical lighting, and gas chimneys.
Architecture:
Doors, windows, floor and ceiling molding, capitals, columns, some furniture, procelain and plastic tile, picture rail molding, floor grates, stained and leaded glass windows, doors, and cabinet doors, railing, accent pieces, and newel posts.
