Brass door or large drawer pull. Don't you wish you had the piece it went on? The piece that someone "up dated" by getting new pulls....
Clean it up and use it to hang a finger tip towel on in your powder room.

linda, when i picked it up my first thought was a door knocker but there isn't any wear where there should be. if it's for a drawer, that would be an impressive drawer. wish there had been more. thanks.

The thing it knocks against isn't there.....I think it's a door pull....maybe came off of one of those floor to ceiling cupboards in an old house...or a buffet....that someone painted with chalk paint and put "oiled bronze" hardware on!

yeah, i can see that happening. that design wouldn't be everybody's cup of tea.

Could it be a towel ring?

I am sure it wasn't meant to be a towel ring....but it would work as one in today's styles.

hi all, after i read parties comment i looked on google images. there are similar items but the ring is bigger. i was thinking about cleaning it up. the vinegar, baking soda process? as much as i'd like to shine it up, i like the crusty look.

I think it is a drawer pull. I am puzzled about the details of a pair of fasteners, one at the top and the other at the bottom of the piece. My first impression was these were rivets, but that did not make sense for a drawer pull for a wood front drawer, maybe would work on a metal drawer. However, on closer inspection of the rear view it appears that I might be seeing a thin headed part screwed onto the post. Can you tell if that is a screwed on part? If so, it would serve nicely as a drawer pull. The thin head would lie snugly against the inside of the drawer front and possibly there would have been very little of the screw sticking out. This may be a measure of the thickness of the drawer front for which this was designed.

If you want to polish it a bit, but leave it still "crusty" and dark in the crevasses, don't use anything like salt and vinegar...
You can either buy a 'blitz cloth" or get some "magic wadding" or use brasso, very sparingly on a cloth and just rub the high spots. Those will give a nicer look than the raw copper look that salt and vinegar will.

jem, thanks for commenting. i don't think those are screws, they kinda look like rivets and that design might have been left by the tool used to peen the end?

linda, thanks. i'm leaning towards leaving it as is. knocking the age off the high spots sounds like a good idea but i can see myself messing with it until it's new again!

Looks like a door knocker to me.

There is no "knocker"...nothing for the ring to bang against and to knock with....also it's only about 4 1/2 inches tall....too small.

We have a knocker on our bathroom door that's about the same size.

My grandpa installed it when this was his house, and I left it in place, tho we never use it, just like to remember my Poppa.

The knocker plate doesn't necessarily have to be connected:

Good point...the strike plate could have been left behind.

hi carol, thanks. cool knocker. when i found it, drawer pull was the first thing that came to mind. holding it, it seems big and out of scale, like linda mentioned earlier it would of had to be a big piece of furniture. check your knocker and see if there are wear marks on the ring where it hits the strike piece. see pic #4