Emtek 8856 Delaware 5-1/2" Center-to-Center Keyed Sideplate Lockset, Dummy (Pair) - Brass Tubular

The 8856 Delaware is a dummy set, so nothing operates. It's a fixed pair of sideplates with knobs or levers mounted surface to the door, one on each face, with no latch and no bolt. Use it on a door that's held closed by something else, a ball catch, a roller catch, or a magnetic catch, or on an inactive leaf of a double door. If you need a working bolt in the same Delaware sideplate look, you need a keyed or deadbolt version, not the dummy.

5-1/2 inches is the spacing between the knob or lever center and the upper feature on the sideplate. It's the dimension that decides whether the plate lines up with an existing two-point layout on the door. Measure your current spacing center to center before ordering; if yours is a different spread, the plate won't sit over both points.

Handing is required, right hand or left hand. Even on a dummy, the lever throw direction and the plate orientation are handed, so a wrong call gives you a lever pointing the wrong way. Stand outside the door: if the hinges are on your right, it's right hand.

No cylinder and no key on the 8856 dummy. It's non-keyed. The keyed sideplate wording refers to the product family the plate belongs to; this particular version is the dummy. If you want a bolt you can key, order the operating version of the sideplate set instead.

The Omnia D12036PD is the nearest match: a solid brass dummy deadbolt lever lockset with plates at 5-1/2 inch center to center, the same center-to-center spacing the Emtek 8856 Delaware uses, and the same brass material. Both are dummy function, so neither latches or locks - they are pull trim only. The Omnia is catalogued as a double dummy, matching the Emtek 8856 being sold as a pair for both faces of the door. The difference is trim selection: the Emtek 8856 Delaware takes a knob or lever style chosen from the Emtek brass program, while the Omnia D12036PD is a lever set as configured.

The Emtek 8856 Delaware is a dummy, non-keyed set, so it will not secure an opening. For a locking sideplate set in the same 5-1/2 inch center-to-center layout, the Omnia D12036A is a single cylinder deadbolt lever lockset in solid brass - key outside, thumbturn inside. If both faces need a key, the Omnia D12036AC is the double cylinder version, also solid brass with a sideplate design. Choose single cylinder for a door with glass nearby only if local egress code allows the double cylinder alternative, since double cylinder requires a key from inside as well.

Three choices are mandatory. Finish, one of eight: Oil Rubbed Bronze US10B, Satin Nickel US15, Pewter US15A, Flat Black US19, Polished Chrome US26, Polished Brass Lifetime US3, Unlacquered Brass US3NL, or French Antique US7. Knob or lever style for the inside trim, from the full brass range (Ace, Spoke, Orb, Round, Egg, Bristol Crystal, Windsor Crystal, Athena, Hermes, Milano, Rope, Santa Fe and so on). And handing. Door thickness is an optional note field.

Yes. The inside trim is open to any brass knob or lever style Emtek makes, including the crystal knobs (Bristol, Windsor, Modern Disc, Modern Square, Diamond, Georgetown, Hampton, Lowell, Old Town, Providence) as well as the porcelain Ebony and Ice White knobs. Pick the same style and same finish you used on the operating doors and the dummy reads identically from the hall.

It's classified residential. That fits single family, custom homes and high-end condo interiors. For a commercial opening or a heavy-traffic multi-family corridor, a residential dummy sideplate is the wrong specification, and a dummy has no security value at all since it doesn't latch.

That's exactly the application. Because it's surface mounted with no bore and no latch, it can go on the inactive leaf of a pair or on a French door held by a flush bolt or catch, without cutting into a narrow stile for a cross bore. It comes as a pair, so you get both faces of the door covered.

No. The Omnia D12036A is a single cylinder deadbolt lever lockset, meaning it carries a working cylinder and bolt, while the Emtek 8856 Delaware is a dummy set with no latch action. On an inactive french door leaf or a pantry door where the trim is only there to pull on, the D12036A adds a bolt that has nowhere to throw unless the frame is prepped and a strike is installed. The dummy-for-dummy comparison is the Omnia D12036PD, which is double dummy like the Emtek 8856.

Yes, by pairing functions within one family. The Emtek 8856 Delaware covers the dummy openings - closets, inactive leaves, pantry doors - in brass at 5-1/2 inch center to center, with the inside trim chosen from the Emtek brass knob and lever program so every door reads the same. On the Omnia side, the same 5-1/2 inch sideplate layout runs across three functions: D12036PD double dummy, D12036A single cylinder, and D12036AC double cylinder, all solid brass. Standardizing on one brand's sideplate keeps the plate outline and finish consistent from the front entry through the interior doors.

Brass throughout, both substrate and material, from the Emtek brass collection. That matters for the living finishes: Unlacquered Brass US3NL will patina over time because there's no clear coat over the brass, while Polished Brass Lifetime US3 is coated to hold its color.

The Emtek 8856 Delaware requires handing to be specified, right hand or left hand, because a lever pitches toward the door edge and has to be oriented correctly. The Omnia D12036PD is a double dummy lever lockset with plates, so the same orientation logic applies to the lever it carries. If handing is a headache on a job with mixed swings, the knob trim options on the Emtek 8856 - such as the Round Knob, Octagon Knob or Square Knob - are symmetrical and sidestep the question entirely.