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Post by imec on Aug 2, 2009 17:25:38 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2009 17:42:13 GMT
I don't know which one I liked the most,perhaps the hand on the magenta painted door but then... I absolutely love this stuff. Gorgeous,gorgeous. What a treat!! (and you're so silly and clever with your opening!)Congrats again BTW,well deserved!!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2009 17:58:48 GMT
I have always liked the designs, but I hate knockers themselves -- the harsh rap on the door really irritates me. If ever Nestor the butler is the one answering the door of my château, perhaps my opinion will change about them.
(My apartment has an old style electric door buzzer, but I stuffed it full of paper tissues, because the sound was even worse than a knocker! Now it is okay.)
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Post by cigalechanta on Aug 2, 2009 18:06:57 GMT
mine looks like the second one
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Post by spindrift on Aug 2, 2009 18:41:13 GMT
I love all those knockers apart from the painted grey dangly one
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 2, 2009 18:46:45 GMT
What a great collection of wonderfully interesting pictures! And what a great lead-in, especially after the recent posting of "no more topless women in France". ;D I could dither forever trying to pick a favorite. Many of them have achieved their true beauty through the weathering of the years and the layers of paint chipping and being renewed. I did rather fall in love with this one ~~
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2009 18:49:45 GMT
Nice knockers, I like the lion with the ring in his mouth.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 2, 2009 21:47:47 GMT
I have always liked the designs, but I hate knockers themselves -- the harsh rap on the door really irritates me. Why does everyone ignore my doorbell (with the lighted button, so no excuse for not noticing it) and use the knocker? Are they so used to doorbells that don't function?
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Post by fumobici on Sept 2, 2009 20:32:20 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2009 20:37:38 GMT
Those are really nice, but big cast iron knockers always remind me of thunderstorm scenes in horror movies. You knock as hard as you can to get let in as fast as possible, and later you regret it!
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 3, 2009 2:11:13 GMT
Fumobici, that first one you posted looks to have the whole history of the building displayed in bits of ironwork, doesn't it?
Number three looks to be an all bronze door! I like #4 because they got creative with the noise making apparatus.
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Post by fumobici on Sept 3, 2009 5:27:50 GMT
Yeah that last one caught my eye even in the dark meandering back to the car after the truffle festival in Città. These remind my very much of the amazing set of wrought iron rings for hitching horses too that surround the outside of the Palazzo Ducale in Gubbio. I'll only post up a couple even though I took pics lots of them as it's off-topic in this thread. Giraffe, I think (!) And a pig ;D
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 3, 2009 6:11:29 GMT
That first one looks like a homage to the Vikings. And yes, the second one is a piggy! Any connection between the pig motif and the local truffles?
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Post by nic on Sept 3, 2009 9:17:56 GMT
I have always liked the designs, but I hate knockers themselves -- the harsh rap on the door really irritates me. For me it's the phone, and the doorbell. Can't stand either. I would rather have a door knocker any day of the week.
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Post by imec on Sept 3, 2009 19:57:35 GMT
Lovely knockers fumobici and nic.
Anyone else? Come on! Show us your knockers!!!
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Post by patricklondon on Sept 3, 2009 21:00:21 GMT
I hate to nit-pick, but could we have a set of maximum dimensions on photos (even of knockers)? It makes loading up the page a rather bumpy experience. I suggest this sort of size (500px wide): BTW, imec, you wouldn't have grown up watching Les Dawson's Cosmo Smallpiece sketches, would you?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2009 21:09:15 GMT
Hear, hear!
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 3, 2009 21:11:50 GMT
Hear, hear, Patrick! For those of you who don't know how to resize, please read this, Reply #1. That's the picture posting workshop thread, and I hope those who have tips on resizing and other photo-related trick will post them there. In that same thread, Reply #18 is of paramount importance. It's about posting over-sized photos from the internet.
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Post by nic on Sept 3, 2009 22:46:42 GMT
Hmm...
That's French around the elephant's head, but what does it say?
"To reach a good..." is what I have. It's not "faith"...
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Post by fumobici on Sept 4, 2009 0:20:02 GMT
All I can figure is the mold maker was trying for "foyer" and ran out of room and was too lazy to start over and correct it. There's no such word in either my Petit Larousse or my favorite online French dictionary.
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Post by imec on Sept 4, 2009 1:00:53 GMT
I hate to nit-pick, but could we have a set of maximum dimensions on photos (even of knockers)? It makes loading up the page a rather bumpy experience. I suggest this sort of size (500px wide): BTW, imec, you wouldn't have grown up watching Les Dawson's Cosmo Smallpiece sketches, would you? Yeah yeah, gimme a break, this is an old post (I was barely a Stalwart) and I've since grown up and realized size isn't everything (thank god for that). re: Les Dawson - I left the UK more than 40 years ago but am somewhat familiar with his "art"
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Post by lola on Sept 4, 2009 3:37:25 GMT
Really nice. Thanks, all.
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Post by patricklondon on Sept 4, 2009 9:51:16 GMT
It's old (or fake old) French spelling for bonne foi (good faith). These are on the door of the Cutler's Hall in the City of London: elephants are on their coat of arms, as a reference (possibly) to ivory for knife-handles, and the motto is "To succeed through good faith"
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Post by Kimby on Sept 8, 2009 15:02:36 GMT
Le Sigh. And here I was hoping that this thread was going to actually be about breasts. After all, it's one of the few ways to tell men apart: a Frenchman's perfect breast fits nicely into a wine glass; a New Yorker's clogs a toilet. ;D My grandpa always said "any more than a mouthful is wasted" but I believe the original expression was "any more than a handful..." Any knocker that would fit into a wine glass would be rather pendulous, wouldn't it? How about a margarita glass? (In Madonna's case, a martini glass!) And how can you combine "breast" and "toilet" in the same sentence! What does that say about the speaker?
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Post by Kimby on Sept 8, 2009 19:19:24 GMT
Rick Steves did a show on Iran that was re-run here recently.
One of the oddities he featured was door knockers on Muslim houses. Apparently they have to have two, each with a different tone, for male and female visitors, since it would be improper for a woman to answer the door if it was a man calling...
Seems silly, but at least it doesn't kill anyone, like not allowing women to become doctors, then not allowing male doctors to examine female patients. (Granted that isn't Iran, but some other countries.)
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Post by Wizard on Mar 31, 2010 16:14:35 GMT
I hate to nit-pick, but could we have a set of maximum dimensions on photos (even of knockers)? It makes loading up the page a rather bumpy experience. Please resize the OP pictures. Thank you.
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Post by dahuffy on Jul 8, 2010 21:53:20 GMT
On a door in Cartagena, Columbia
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Post by amboseli on Feb 26, 2012 15:53:52 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Feb 26, 2012 17:40:57 GMT
yay! Happy to see this thread revived.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 3, 2012 17:43:10 GMT
...perhaps if we restored its original title "Nice Knockers!" it might STAY revived! ;-)
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