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2. Door knocker - Wikipedia

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   A door knocker is an item of door furniture that allows people outside a house or other dwelling or building to alert those inside to their presence. A door knocker has a part fixed to the door, and a part (usually metal) which is attached to the door by a hinge, and may be lifted and used to strike a plate fitted to the door, or the door itself, making a noise.

3. Architectural ironmongery - Wikipedia

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   Architectural ironmongery includes door handles, closers, locks, cylinder pulls and hinges (door furniture), window fittings, cupboard fittings, iron railings, handrails, balustrades, switches and sockets. The term is sometimes used to distinguish between these items and retail of consumer goods sold in ironmongers' shops or hardware stores.

4. Door hanger - Wikipedia

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   A door hanger (also spelled doorhanger or door-hanger) is a plastic or cardboard sign, generally rectangular in shape, cut to hang from the handle or knob of a door.

5. Nottingham Knockers - Wikipedia

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   Nottingham Knockers are aggressive door-to-door salesmen that sell goods at inflated prices to vulnerable people. They are also believed to act as scouts for later burglaries. [1] They often claim to be ex-convicts on a rehabilitation scheme and show ID cards that purport to confirm this. [2]

6. Sanctuary knocker - Wikipedia

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   Sanctuary knocker on Durham Cathedral. A sanctuary knocker is an ornamental knocker on the door of a cathedral or church. Under medieval English common law, these instruments supposedly afforded the right of asylum to anybody who touched them.

7. Knocker-up - Wikipedia

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   The knocker-up used a baton or short, heavy stick to knock on the clients' doors or a long and light stick, [5] often made of bamboo, to reach windows on higher floors. One famous photograph shot in 1931 by John Topham shows a knocker-up in East London using a pea-shooter. [6] In return for the task, the knocker-up would be paid a few pence a ...