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Chambord Design
CATALOG ID: N-17600
Chambord Design

First appears in the 1897 catalog, page 38. Quite a find. Francis I was known as the "salamander king". The knob depicts a salamander rather than a dragon seehttps://hemmahoshilde.wordpress.com/2015/05/21/francis-i-with-his-salamander/Also in 1889 catalog page 582, 1910 catalog page 573, 1929 catalog page 374 and 1937 catalog page 335.

Specifications

School / Style
Francis I
Manufacturer
Yale & Towne
Circa Dates
c. 1897
Classification
Category N
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N-17600

About this record

“Chambord Design” (catalogue N-17600) is an antique doorknob recorded in the Oval Knobs category (Category N) of the Antique Doorknob Collectors of America archive. It was made by Yale & Towne, c. 1897. The pattern belongs to the Francis I school of ornament.

Moving off a platform we had outgrown

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