Close-up of an ornate patterned doorknob and rosette on a wooden door at the Molly Brown House — Jonathan Mauer / Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0. View source

Victorian (Queen Anne, Eastlake) · Metal Hardware

Ornamented Interior Doorknob, Molly Brown House, Denver

A decorated interior doorknob and rosette in the Molly Brown House Museum in Denver, typical of the cast, patterned hardware used in high-style houses of the 1880s.

Late-Victorian houses used decorative cast hardware throughout, with matching knobs, rosettes and escutcheons on each door. Details like this set the scale for everything around them: a richly patterned knob looks right against a substantial casing and a paneled door. Metal hardware is not part of our custom woodwork range, but this entry is in the reference library because hardware is the first thing to plan when a period door or cabinet is made. We can machine doors and cabinet fronts to accept salvaged or reproduction hardware.

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Reference only. We can prepare doors and fronts for salvaged or reproduction hardware of this type.

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