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Door Knocker Information

Door knockers have come a long way from the heavy cast iron handles that can be found in doors dating back to Elizabethan times and beyond. Today, door knockers are manufactured from a variety of metallic alloys that are chosen for their texture, color and malleability as well as their weight. Designs range from the traditional mythological figures and animal heads that were used one hundred fifty years ago, all the way to modern artistic designs and whimsical recreations of oddities like pineapples and jumping frogs.

Artisans who specialize in designing and manufacturing door knockers generally will work in four or five alloys in addition to iron. Their casting methods allow for great detail. Some of the door knockers available today are true works of art: multicolored and manufactured with depth and surface detail.

• One of the most arresting and beautiful door knockers to be found on the market is a brass saguaro cactus, dotted with small bumps representing the sharp needles of the plant. Behind it is a smooth, polished circle that appears to be a rising full moon.

• You can have a pineapple door knocker done in either brass or nickel silver and chrome. The brass version has polished leaves wrapping up the pineapple from the bottom; while the honeycomb detailed fruit itself is burnished and darker. The nickel silver pineapple accomplishes the same contrast with two metals.

• A classic Victorian urn door knocker is available in oiled bronze, in brass or in nickel silver and chrome. The knocker is hinged to the urn by two arms which attach where the urn’s handles should be and swing down to a decorative handle.

• Dragonflies, butterflies, ladybugs and bumblebees are all detailed and polished door knockers, some made from multiple alloys.

• If you’re a sportsman, you can mount a golf putter’s head with a partial golf ball behind it as your door’s centerpiece.

• Lobsters, quahog and scallop shells and crabs are all also designs available for the nautically inclined.