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==Types== German professor [[Franz Sales Meyer]] distinguished three kinds of door knocker: the "ring", the "hammer", and an ornate category which could take the shape of an animal or another figure.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Franz Sales |first1=Meyer |title=texts A Handbook Of Ornament: With Three Hundred Plates, Containing About Three Thousand Illustrations Of The Elements, And The Application Of Decoration To Objects |date=1896 |publisher=B. T. Batsford |pages=408β410 |url=https://archive.org/details/HandbookOfOrnamentWith300Plates/page/n433/mode/2up/search/%22Door+knocker%22 |accessdate=19 February 2020}}</ref> High demand for antique door knockers in the early 20th century in the United States caused forged versions to emerge.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Atlee Barber |first1=Edwin |title=Old Door-Knockers |journal=Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Museum |date=January 1910 |volume=8 |issue=29 |pages=5β9 |doi=10.2307/3793788 |jstor=3793788}}</ref>
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