Door Knob
Door Knob
- Description
- Doorknob with a cable- or rope-bordered knob-top screwed to a long square shank with four circular threaded holes at its end. No marks.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- doorknob
- place made
- United States: Connecticut, Bridgeport
- Physical Description
- silver plate (knob-top, collar material)
- steel (shank material)
- iron (screw material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in; 13.97 cm x 5.715 cm
- ID Number
- DL.63.0194
- catalog number
- 63.0194
- accession number
- 242862
- Credit Line
- Gift of Miss Elizabeth Sterling Seeley
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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