Emtek Designer Brass Leverset - Ribbon & Reed Lever, Dummy (Pair)

A dummy pair is fixed trim, not a working lock. The Emtek Ribbon & Reed dummy set has no latch, no spindle turn, and no keyway, so the levers do not retract anything. You use them on double doors, closet or pantry doors, and French door inactive leaves where the door is held by a roller catch, ball catch, magnet, or flush bolts you supply separately. If you need the lever to actually operate a latch, order the passage version of the same design instead.

No boring needed. The Ribbon and Reed dummy pair is surface mount, so it screws to the face of the door with no cross bore and no latch mortise. That makes it the usual choice when you are adding a lever to a slab that was never drilled, or covering nothing at all on a decorative pair of doors. It fits doors 1-3/8 inch through 1-3/4 inch thick.

Handing sets which way the lever points. Ribbon & Reed is offered Left Hand and Right Hand, and on a pair of doors you normally want the levers mirrored so both point toward the meeting stile. Order one LH and one RH set for a matched pair of openings, or match the hand of the working lockset on the adjacent door so the whole run looks the same.

Two. It is sold as a complete set with a lever on each side, which is what you want on a door you want to look finished from both faces. If you only need one side, say a closet door or the inactive leaf of a French pair that is blank on the back, a half dummy is the better buy, and the Baldwin Estate 5103 half dummy is stocked in both a left hand and a right hand version.

Yes. The Ribbon and Reed lever can be ordered with any of the brass rosettes, ten in total: #8, Lancaster, Oval, Quincy, Rectangular, Regular, Ribbon & Reed, Rope, Watford and Wilshire. That is how you make a dummy pair match the passage and privacy sets already hung elsewhere in the house, keep the lever design and change the rose to whatever the rest of the openings use.

A dummy will not lock or latch anything. For a bedroom or bath you want privacy function, and the Baldwin Estate 5103 privacy lever with the 5048 rose is the comparable decorative option. For a hall or closet door that only needs to latch, the Baldwin Estate 5103 passage lever is the same design in passage function. Keep the Ribbon & Reed dummy for the inactive leaf or the door that is only ever pushed.

The Emtek Ribbon & Reed dummy leverset is sold as a complete set covering both faces, with left hand and right hand handing offered. When only one face needs a dummy lever, the Baldwin Estate 5103 half dummy is the single-lever equivalent and is ordered by hand: 5103 Left Hand Half Dummy Lever with 5048 Rose, or 5103 Right Hand Half Dummy Lever with 5048 Rose. Both are dummy function, so the lever is fixed and nothing latches, the same behavior as the Emtek pair on one side of the door.

The Emtek Ribbon & Reed dummy leverset is a residential brass lever with a tubular lock body. For an opening that is being specified to an ANSI/BHMA grade, the graded dummy alternatives are the BEST 9K Series 1DT single dummy trim, which is Grade 1 heavy duty and non-keyed, the BEST 7KC Series single dummy trim, which is Grade 2 medium duty and non-keyed, and the Accentra 455LN Augusta single dummy cylindrical lever, which is Grade 1 in the 5400 Series. All three are dummy function, so they perform the same job as the Emtek pair on a door with no latching required.

A dummy lever does not latch; the Emtek Ribbon & Reed dummy is surface mount with no door prep and no latch mechanism. For a door that needs to hold closed with no lock, the passage function equivalents are the Baldwin Estate 5103 Passage Lever with 5048 Rose in a comparable decorative style, the Falcon B101 Grade 2 cylindrical passage lever with a non-handed design, and the Hager 2510 Grade 2 passage lever with the Withnell design, which covers doors 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch thick. All of these are bored into the door, unlike the surface mounted Emtek dummy.

Seven finishes: French Antique (US7), Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Pewter (US15A), Polished Brass Lifetime (US3), Polished Chrome (US26), Satin Nickel (US15) and Unlacquered Brass (US3NL). Unlacquered brass is the living finish, it has no clear coat so it patinas with handling. Polished Brass Lifetime is the coated one that stays bright. If you are mixing this into an existing run of Emtek trim, match the US number, not the finish name.

Yes, a split finish is available as an order option, so you can run one finish on the hall side and another on the room side. Type the two finishes you want into the split finish field when you order. It is the usual way to match a dark bronze hallway to a polished brass bedroom without buying two sets.

No strike, no latch, no backset to worry about. Because the dummy pair is surface mounted with no bore, the frame needs nothing done to it. What you do need is whatever holds the door closed, a ball catch, roller catch, magnetic catch or flush bolts on an inactive leaf. That hardware is separate from this set.

The Emtek Ribbon & Reed dummy lever is non-keyed with a dummy function, which gives no privacy at all. For the rooms that need to lock from inside, the privacy function counterparts are the Baldwin Estate 5103 Privacy Lever with 5048 Rose, which shares the 5103 lever and 5048 rose with the Baldwin half dummy, the Kwikset 300BRNL RDT Breton privacy leverset, a Grade 3 privacy lock for doors 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch thick, and the Arrow MK02-TA privacy lock, which is non-keyed and fire rated. That keeps the dummy levers on the false and closet doors and puts a locking lever where it is needed.

The Emtek Ribbon & Reed dummy lever covers doors 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch thick. For thicker leaves, the Falcon K101 Grade 1 passage lever covers 1-3/8 inch to 2-1/4 inch and is fire rated with non-handed levers, the Dexter C1000 Series asylum function lever covers 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch, and the Deltana 6201 Manchester Lever entry covers 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch. The Corbin Russwin CL3110 passage lever is built for the 1-3/4 inch to 2 inch range specifically. Note that these are latching or locking functions rather than a fixed dummy lever.

The Emtek Ribbon & Reed dummy lever is a brass lever in the Ribbon & Reed style, offered with ten rosette choices including Lancaster, Quincy, Rope, Watford and Wilshire. When the opening does not call for a decorative brass lever, the plainer dummy options are the Callan Bentley Grade 2 dummy lever in the Bentley series and the BEST 7KC Series single dummy trim, a Grade 2 medium duty non-keyed dummy. Both deliver the same fixed lever with nothing to latch, without the decorative rosette program.

They are not interchangeable. The Emtek Ribbon & Reed dummy lever is surface mount with no door prep required and does not latch. The Bravura Atlanta, Orlando and Tampa leversets and the Callan Asheville are all Grade 2 or Grade 3 passage function leversets, meaning they carry a latch and require a bored door with a latch prep and strike. Choosing one of those in place of the Emtek dummy means preparing a door that currently has no hole in it.

The Emtek Ribbon & Reed dummy leverset is non-keyed and non-electronic, so it carries no cylinder and no keying. Keyed openings on the same floor have to come from a keyed lever line: the Cal-Royal AG00 entrance lever is a Grade 2 with a 6-pin Schlage C keyway keyed different and a 2-3/8 inch backset for doors 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch, the Cal-Royal AG03 classroom lever uses the same Schlage C keyway with a 2-3/4 inch backset, and the Dexter C1000 Series entry/office lever is a Grade 1 keyed clutching lever for 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch doors. The Emtek dummy stays on the closet and inactive leaves.

Solid brass. Both the lever and the rosette are brass, which is why the unlacquered option can be left to patina rather than flaking like a plated finish would. It is a residential product, so it is specified for houses and light-use interior openings rather than commercial traffic.

The Emtek Ribbon & Reed dummy lever is a mechanical non-electronic lever with no access control of any kind. For a door that now needs code entry, the Lockey 2835 mechanical pushbutton keyless lever lock has a passage function and is ADA compliant for doors 1-3/16 inch to 2 inch thick, the Lockey 1150 heavy duty mechanical keypad lever set takes a double combination on doors 1-1/8 inch to 2 inch, and the Delaney LP250 is a Grade 2 electronic keypad leverlock. The mechanical Lockey units need no power; the Delaney is an electronic unit.