The Supervising Architects office at the United States Treasury designed and/or built most Federal buildings in the United States between 1850 and 1940. Some buildings featured the Treasury Department seal on doorknobs. Found with lock marked Hopkins & Dickinson. Used in the Post Office and Custom House at Port Huron, MI. Click on each photo below to view additional images and information. Formerly catalogued as O-145.
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“Treasury Seal” (catalogue P-10130) is an antique doorknob recorded in the Public Buildings/Seals category (Category P, Seals) of the Antique Doorknob Collectors of America archive. It was made by Hopkins & Dickinson, circa 1877. The pattern belongs to the Emblematic school of ornament.
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