by Lucy Atkinson
One of the oldest door knockers known to mankind is this one from the town of Olynthos in Ancient Macedonia, which has been dated at manufacture sometime around 340-430 BC. Nearly two and a half thousand years ago!
The knocker is quite well made, considering the tools they would have had at the time to cast metal and so forth. This would have been on the door of one of the wealthiest people in the town … very lucky that we don’t have to be the richest person in our suburb or town to own a little bit of class like this!
You can expect the knockers that we sell here to be standing in two and a half thousand years time, as well!
Photo credits: macedonian-heritage.gr
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June 16th, 2007 at 5:41
Hey I have a knocker nearly exactly the same! I should get it valued
June 22nd, 2007 at 6:28
I wonder what standard door knockers will look like in 2 and a half thousand years time. They haven’t changed that much since this one, that’s for sure.