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Antique Knockers: Avoiding the Knockoffs imageAntique knockers add style and sophistication to any door, and they can also be showcased throughout the home. Finding an authentic antique knocker is much like opening a door to the past, because, at...Read More about Antique Knockers: Avoiding the KnockoffsSign Up For 15%* *Opt-out at any time. See our commitment to Privacy for details.Excludes overstock, clearance, doorbusters, hot buys, price cuts and price restricted items. Offer valid for first-time email subscribers only and expires in 30 days. On Orders Over $75.00 NO SALES TAX and PRICE MATCHING* SIGN UP FOR EXCLUSIVE OFFERS Sign Up For 15%* Fusion Hardware Elite Oil Rubbed Bronze Victorian Violet Glass Door Fusion Hardware Elite Oil Rubbed Bronze Elite Quincy Dummy Handleset Alphabetical A to Z Alphabetical Z to A Price Low to High Price High to Low 12 Items Per Page 24 Items Per Page 48 Items Per Page 96 Items Per Page
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For example, cast-iron rococo door knockers from mid-18th-century France were built of multiple curlicues, with lone flat spots reserved for the points of contact between striker and strike plate. This, the knocker seemed to say, was the home of a family that valued style. Similarly, the Duke of Wellington’s victory over Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815 spurred English metalsmiths to create a door knocker that featured a small lion’s head at the bottom of a laurel garland, whose pivot-point was gripped by a cast-iron fist. This, the knocker appeared to proclaim, was the home of patriots. In general, there were three types of door knockers—hammer knockers, figurative knockers, and rings. Hammer knockers pivoted on a plate that sometimes extended below the end of the knocker to serve as its own striking surface. Other types of hammer knockers were attached to a smaller plate at the top, which meant a separate strike plate had to be installed in the door to keep it from being dinged by the knocker’s business end.
Freemansons even made hammer knockers in the shape of hammers. The designs of hammer knockers ranged from decorative shapes taken from nature and geometry to figurative ones, most famously in the brass, Victorian Era ladies hand, which held a heavy brass ball that clanked loudly when knocked against its companion circular strike plate. Even more historic were the wrought-iron fleur-de-lis door knockers formed from flat bands of hammered metal—the weight of the inwardly scrolling end of the band made a fine striker. Figurative knockers incorporated everything from lion heads (a British favorite) to eagles (popular in the United States) in their designs. Sometimes the figure, or even just its... Rings, such as those held in a lion’s jaws, often had a ball of metal on the insides of their bottom-most points, to give the shape weight and increase its volume when rapped. Some rings were stirrup shaped and thicker at their bottoms to give them heft while others resembled twisted strands of rope.