Antique spring door bell

An attractive antique, sprung front door bell.

This piece while an interesting collector’s object, is also still fully functional and can be put to use in your shop or home to alert you to visitors.

Part of the metal spike is inserted into a drilled hole at the top of a door. With the movement of the door and subsequent vibration through the spring, the bell moves and the clapper strikes the inside of the bell.

It’s an attractive and useful piece of history and is useful to let the family know someone’s come home or perfect used in the boutique, independent shop or café door to let you know you have a customer.

I believe this originally would have been located beside the front door on the inside of the building. A long piece of wire or string would have been attached to the hole which would trace the perimeter of the doorway then onto the end of a pull handle accessed to the front of the property. The unit would mount by a large nail or screw through the central hole and pulling on the string would rock the unit ringing the bell.

However, this could be mounted via the same central hole into a door with a shim, and with space to rotate freely on it, the bell would ring from the movement of the door.

28cm tall X 20cm wide X 8.5cm bell opening.

An attractive antique, sprung front door bell.

This piece while an interesting collector’s object, is also still fully functional and can be put to use in your shop or home to alert you to visitors.

Part of the metal spike is inserted into a drilled hole at the top of a door. With the movement of the door and subsequent vibration through the spring, the bell moves and the clapper strikes the inside of the bell.

It’s an attractive and useful piece of history and is useful to let the family know someone’s come home or perfect used in the boutique, independent shop or café door to let you know you have a customer.

I believe this originally would have been located beside the front door on the inside of the building. A long piece of wire or string would have been attached to the hole which would trace the perimeter of the doorway then onto the end of a pull handle accessed to the front of the property. The unit would mount by a large nail or screw through the central hole and pulling on the string would rock the unit ringing the bell.

However, this could be mounted via the same central hole into a door with a shim, and with space to rotate freely on it, the bell would ring from the movement of the door.

28cm tall X 20cm wide X 8.5cm bell opening.