20s? How old is the building? I do know Egyptian motifs were all the rage in the 20s...

Did you remove them from the door or were they stashed somewhere? If you have the lock that goes with them, it will probably have a name but that probably isn't relevant. It might help date them though.

Look Aesthetic Movement c. 1880 to me.

Carol, the church was built in the 1870s and I'm not sure if this room was original or an addition. It has had upgrades over the years, just barely. I was also thinking 20s.

Fori, I'm not sure where they were found. I think one was removed from the door but it wasn't at normal door knob height, but lower down, where no adult would install a door knob. I think the key is long gone.

Here's the knob we found.

I don't think the glass knob goes. I'd expect something frilly in brass. :) And um...smaller? How small are these backplates? Could they be for a cabinet instead of a full-blown door?

Pal, thank you so much!!! Just googled Aesthetic Movement hardware and it's divine. This is an excerpt from the website' section on the church's history:

"The building was completed in 1873. It is said that the church was constructed from the wood of two redwood trees. The Church was declared debt free in 1876 and consecrated in November, 1877. The cost for church, furniture and equipment was $3,000.00!

In 1885, a larger church was needed, so the building was quartered, drawn apart, and enlarged."

Fori, I agree with you. I know nothing about this stuff, but it doesn't look like they go together. I forgot to measure them. They aren't huge. We assumed a door, but maybe they were on a cabinet.

Mortise style locksets are wonderful, but finicky irritating things. I'm guessing they don't match anything left in the building and most of the knobs have been upgraded to modern knobs. If the doors are original you can usually see where the hole for the original mechanism was filled. Not that that would help you learn anything about these at all!

They are 5-1/2 x 1-1/2 inches. We love them and will install on either side of the door. They had both been completely painted over! Is it okay to polish them up? The patina was lost due to paint removal anyway.

That seems awfully small for a door! That's before my time, though, so at this point I'm making it up.

Maybe there was a locked cabinet for the communion silver or something more mundane like the collection baskets. They seem too nice for broom storage, though.

Pal, thanks again. This stuff is gorgeous.

Fori, these were definitely used on a door. Here's the door. Although the inside of the church is old darkened redwood the sanctuary side of the door was painted dark brown and the inside white. The back plates were painted over. The lower, patched hole is where they had been, just the right height for a hobbit. Nobody really noticed them because they'd been painted over. The plan is to reinstall at normal height and use only for decoration and so that the door can be closed more easily when it's locked. It would be fun to look in antique shops for knobs that would be more appropriate.

As far as I know, the communion silver has never been under lock and key.

Crown City Hardware may have something. They are closed temporarily apparently, but they are converting to an online-only store.

That door looks like it was chopped off on the bottom, so the knob might be low but sort of in the right place near the middle cross rail, but I would have thought the bottom cross rail would be at least as wide as the top rail if not as wide as the middle cross rail. It's missing several inches off the bottom.

Pal, good point. Probably no one's noticed. I wonder what the faint circle is near the top of the door.