Doorknob

Museum number:
7-579
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.90
Description:
(a) Furniture pull, iron, inverted heart-shaped, open; pivoting on cotter pin; extended length 8 cm x width (handle) 3.5 cm; (b) escutcheon plate for above, iron, round, flat, with dentate edge; diameter 3.6 cm
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Verbatim coll. place:
Nuremberg; Germany
Culture or time period:
Bavarian
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Materials:
Iron (metal) and Metal
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Doorknobs
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 5 titled Doorknob, accession number 7-579, described as (a) Furniture pull, iron, inverted heart-shaped, open; pivoting on cotter pin; extended length 8 cm x width (handle) 3.5 cm; (b) escutcheon plate for above, iron, round, flat, with dentate edge; diameter 3.6 cmHearst Museum object 2 of 5 titled Doorknob, accession number 7-579, described as (a) Furniture pull, iron, inverted heart-shaped, open; pivoting on cotter pin; extended length 8 cm x width (handle) 3.5 cm; (b) escutcheon plate for above, iron, round, flat, with dentate edge; diameter 3.6 cmHearst Museum object 3 of 5 titled Doorknob, accession number 7-579, described as (a) Furniture pull, iron, inverted heart-shaped, open; pivoting on cotter pin; extended length 8 cm x width (handle) 3.5 cm; (b) escutcheon plate for above, iron, round, flat, with dentate edge; diameter 3.6 cmHearst Museum object 4 of 5 titled Doorknob, accession number 7-579, described as (a) Furniture pull, iron, inverted heart-shaped, open; pivoting on cotter pin; extended length 8 cm x width (handle) 3.5 cm; (b) escutcheon plate for above, iron, round, flat, with dentate edge; diameter 3.6 cmHearst Museum object 5 of 5 titled Doorknob, accession number 7-579, described as (a) Furniture pull, iron, inverted heart-shaped, open; pivoting on cotter pin; extended length 8 cm x width (handle) 3.5 cm; (b) escutcheon plate for above, iron, round, flat, with dentate edge; diameter 3.6 cm
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Doorknob, accession number 7-579, described as (a) Furniture pull, iron, inverted heart-shaped, open; pivoting on cotter pin; extended length 8 cm x width (handle) 3.5 cm; (b) escutcheon plate for above, iron, round, flat, with dentate edge; diameter 3.6 cm

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