Bravura Bancroft with Arched Trim Dummy Knobset, Grade 2

No latch, no bore mechanism, no operation. The Bancroft dummy knob is fixed trim: it mounts to the door face and gives you something to pull on. It's used as the counterpart to functioning hardware (the inactive leaf of a French pair, a closet or pantry door held shut by a ball catch or roller catch) or anywhere a latch isn't needed. If you need the door to stay shut on its own, you need a passage set instead, plus a catch if you go the dummy route.

Bravura lists the Bancroft as residential, and it exceeds ANSI Grade 2 standards on the internal mechanics. For a house, an apartment interior, or a hospitality guest room, that is a fair fit. For a school, hospital, or anything with institutional traffic and a spec sheet, buy a commercial dummy trim instead. The BEST 6K Series single dummy trim and the Schlage A170 single dummy trim are both Grade 2 commercial cylindrical dummy knobs, and the Schlage is listed heavy duty.

The Schlage A170 single dummy trim is a Grade 2 cylindrical non-keyed knob lock with a dummy function, and the BEST 6K Series single dummy trim is also a Grade 2 non-keyed cylindrical dummy knob. The Bravura Bancroft with Arched Trim is likewise a Grade 2 dummy cylindrical knobset, so all three are non-latching trim for a fixed or inactive leaf. The Bancroft is solid brass and rated residential, while the Schlage A170 carries a heavy duty rating and the BEST 6K is medium duty.

Emtek supplies dummy knobsets sold as a pair, including the Arts and Crafts Hammered Egg dummy pair and the Classic Brass Crystal Georgetown and Providence dummy pairs, so one order covers trim on both sides or both leaves. The Bravura Bancroft with Arched Trim dummy knobset and the Omnia 434/0, 442/00 and 458/0 are single dummy assemblies, so a double door needs two.

A dummy has no chassis to fill a bore, so it mounts to the face of the door rather than through a prepped 2-1/8 inch cross bore. If you're covering an existing bored opening, a functioning set is the cleaner answer, a Grade 2 passage knob like the Corbin Russwin CK4410 or the Dexter C2000 passage knob drops into standard bored prep. The Bancroft dummy belongs on an unprepped door, or on the inactive leaf that was never bored.

No. The Bancroft is reversible, so the same part works on a left or right hand door and you don't have to specify handing on the order. For a contractor buying a dozen for a build, that means one line item instead of two.

The Bancroft is sold as a dummy only, so pairing it with a matching passage or entry set means staying within Bravura's Bancroft line. If you'd rather buy a family where dummy, passage, privacy and entry all come from one series, look at the Dexter C2000, which covers passage, privacy, entry/office and classroom in Grade 2, or the Pamex FTF Baron, which covers entrance/office, privacy and passage. Cal-Royal also offers a straight dummy knob, the BA40 in the Barrington series.

The Omnia 434/0 traditional egg-shaped single dummy and the Omnia 442/00 single dummy with a 2-5/8 inch rose are both dummy function knob sets of solid brass construction, as is the Omnia 458/0 single dummy. The Bravura Bancroft with Arched Trim dummy knobset is also solid brass and is offered in US26 polished chrome, US15 satin nickel, US10B oil rubbed bronze and US19 black.

The Bravura Bancroft with Arched Trim dummy knobset is rated residential at Grade 2. For heavier commercial traffic in a knob, the Schlage D10S passage latch is Grade 1 heavy duty, the Falcon X101 passage knobset is Grade 1 heavy duty with a fire rating, and the Sargent 8XG04 storeroom knob lock is Grade 1 heavy duty with a 2-3/4 inch backset. Those are latching functions rather than dummy trim.

The Cal-Royal BA40 dummy knob cylindrical lock is listed for doors 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch thick, and the Schlage A170 single dummy trim covers 1-3/8 inch to 1-7/8 inch. If the opening is thicker than typical, the A170 range is the wider of the two. All three of these, including the Bravura Bancroft with Arched Trim, are dummy function knob trim with no latch.

The Bravura Bancroft with Arched Trim dummy knobset is a Grade 2 residential dummy. For keyed entry knobs in the same residential grade range, the Callan Edgewood and Callan Roland are Grade 2 entrance knobsets, and the Delaney Belton, Galway and Olivia are Grade 3 entrance knobsets. Knob styling will not match the Bancroft arched trim across brands, so confirm the rose and knob shape if a visual match matters.