http://www.vintagehardware.com/proddetail.php?prod=26619&optn0x0y3=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAvMPRBRBIEiwABuO6qc1FdgG0nqcgIRBLH4zGFJZr38Bgjw8bTtCW0UR5m21gHu_rxlwaQBoCsIYQAvD_BwE

This is such a tease! With door plates and knobs like that, the house must be a gem (under a lot of paint?).

Those are pretty awesome. Search for "architectural salvage" also. Sometimes these turn up on ETSY.com or Ebay.com. Patience and luck.

Ooh found these on etsy! https://www.etsy.com/listing/522933606/matched-set-of-2-vintage-escutcheons-art?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=art%20deco%20door%20plate&ref=sc_gallery_8&plkey=aacaa8b2e19d05f13f885d997aba4094ae5f7efc:522933606

closest match so far.

As far as the house goes--it might have been a gem once but was owned by a string of slum lords who stripped any charm away and covered it with the cheapest home depot laminate and fixtures. But it's been fun to restore. I only wish we had a sense of what it once looked like. There's only one exterior photo on record.

omg BINGO!!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/572116019/art-deco-door-plates-vintage-escutcheon?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=art%20deco%20escutcheon&ref=sc_gallery_4&plkey=b34262f5fb1cfe96582c00ad0594b602829cf37e:572116019

the next question will be having them re-plated because it seems like they were all stripped of their original plating. so how to determine what that plating should be. I'm guessing it's an antique brass but not sure. thoughts?

There was a time when aluminum was quite the fancy metal (because it was new) -- we have some Deco-era buildings with shiny molded aluminum elevators to impress the guests. You might just go for a silvery metal finish. But that depends on how your choice here constrains the rest of the home...

having just spent a fortune removing the aluminum siding on the house, i can't imagine going near it again. :D

i have a friend here who is an artist and has a great plating connection, but i'm going to have to do some research on what the best choice is.

Try these guys - if they don't have them, they'll know who will:
http://thedoorstore.ca/hardware/#antique-hardware

thank you. that's actually a great reference for me for how to plate them!

(well, I'd go with chrome or nickel, not actual aluminum, but just thought I'd throw it out there in case you felt a debt to brass because of the era. :)

Have you read this story?

https://www.houzz.com/magazine/art-deco-art-nouveau-arts-and-crafts-whats-the-difference-stsetivw-vs~30718392

Lars/J. Robert Scott yes, i bought them all :)

JudyG Designs interesting, thanks. are you thinking that the doorplates are not art deco? The architecture of the house itself certainly isn't but those are the only original features.

You lucky!!! I have memories of my dad with all of the hardware (including the inside bits and hinges) soaking in something or other in aluminum trays in the basement of our 1900 home...I so miss that house... :(

I'm wondering why you think they were plated at all?

penny design maybe they weren't. i'm not sure. the photos look like they show some sign of peeling, flaking--but it could just be paint.

Maybe...I'm no expert in this at all....ours were all brass. I feel like they plated zinc back then...what fun research, though, right?

At least the mechanism won't have been painted :)