Emtek 455212 Denver Grip by Grip Entrance Handleset - Sandcast Bronze Tubular - Dummy

It's a dummy. The Denver 455212 is a non-keyed, dummy-function handleset, so there's no latch, no cylinder and no operating mechanism. It's a pull only. Use it on an inactive leaf of a pair, on a French door slab where a separate multipoint or flush bolt does the securing, or on the exterior of a door that latches some other way. If you need it to actually latch and lock, you need a keyed entry or passage handleset instead.

No door prep. The Denver grip-by-grip dummy is surface mount, so it fastens through the face of the door rather than needing a bored 2-1/8 inch cross bore or a latch mortise. That makes it the easy choice on a slab that's already finished, or on a door where you don't want to cut into the edge. The mounting screws still need to pass through the door, so thickness matters: it's built for 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch.

The Denver grip measures 5-1/2 inches center to center between the mounting points. If you're replacing an existing handleset, measure the spacing on the old plate: match at 5-1/2 inches and the new fasteners land on the existing holes. Anything else and you'll be patching the face of the door, which on a stained wood entry is real work.

Handing is not required on the Denver grip-by-grip dummy. Since there's no latch and no operating thumbpiece mechanism to reverse, the same unit works on a left- or right-hand door. One less thing to get wrong on the order.

Three finishes on the Denver sandcast bronze: Flat Black Bronze (FB), Medium Bronze (MB), and Tumbled White Bronze (TWB). Split finish is available as an option at order time, so you can run one finish on the exterior grip and a different one on the interior grip. That's common when the outside has to match the other exterior hardware and the inside has to match the rest of the house.

It's built and rated as residential hardware, and it's a dummy pull with no latching or locking capability. For a commercial opening needing egress, fire, or ANSI grade performance, this isn't the part. Property managers doing high-end residential, multi-family front doors, or hospitality suite entries are the fit for it, and even then only where something else handles the securing.

The Denver is sandcast bronze, with bronze as both the substrate and the finish material. Sandcast gives it the heavy, slightly irregular surface texture that pairs with rustic and timber-frame entries rather than a smooth machined look. Bronze living finishes like Medium Bronze and Tumbled White Bronze will patina with weather and hand traffic over time, which is the intended behavior, not a defect.