'Great Salopia" - Brass Door Knocker - 1915

Lovely little Door Knocker with a Registration Number for 1915. Measures 5 1/4" in length.These small knockers were made for internal doors originally as the old homes never had locking doors. In the early 1900's most were sold as souvenirs for tourist sites. SALOP was an old name for Shropshire.Shropshire is a unitary authority (since 2009). It is also sometimes called Salop. The administrative center is Shrewsbury Shrewsbury, administrative center of Shropshire, W England, on the Severn River. Shrewsbury is a road and rail junction with varied manufactures. It was an ancient Saxon and Norman stronghold. .