Emtek Modern Classic Brass Leverset - Stuttgart Lever, Dummy (Pair)

A dummy lever is a fixed pull. Nothing turns, there is no latch, and there is no bore in the door: the Emtek Stuttgart dummy is surface mounted and needs no door prep. Use it where the door is held shut by something else, typically an inactive leaf of a French or double door, a closet door on ball catches or roller catches, or a pantry door with a magnetic catch. If you want a handle that retracts a latch and holds the door closed on its own, you want a passage set instead, not a dummy. This one is sold as a pair, so it covers both faces of a door or one lever on each leaf of a double door.

No boring. The Stuttgart dummy mounts on the surface of the door face, so there is no 2-1/8 inch cross bore, no 1 inch edge bore, and no latch or strike prep. That makes it the usual choice for a slab you do not want to cut, including a glass-panel or a finished closet door that already hangs.

The Stuttgart lever is shaped, so it points one way and handing has to be specified. Stand on the outside of the door, the side it swings away from: hinges on your left is left hand, hinges on your right is right hand. Because it ships as a pair, order the handing that suits the face people will see most. On a set of double doors where you want the two levers to mirror each other, order one of each hand.

That is what the rosette and finish choices are for. The Stuttgart dummy takes any of six Emtek brass rosettes, Disk, Modern, Modern Rectangular, Neos, Square and Urban Modern, so you pick the same rose shape as the working levers elsewhere in the house or unit. Finish runs across Flat Black (US19), Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Polished Chrome (US26), Polished Nickel Lifetime (US14), Satin Brass (US4), Satin Nickel (US15) and Unlacquered Brass (US3NL). Match rose plus finish and the closet or French door reads identically to the latched doors beside it.

Brass body and brass rosette, and Emtek classes it as residential hardware. For a house, condo, or a boutique or multi-family interior it is the right level of finish. For a commercial corridor, a school, or anywhere the specification calls for a graded cylindrical lock, go to a Grade 1 or Grade 2 dummy trim instead, such as the BEST 9K Series 1DT single dummy trim (Grade 1, heavy duty) or the BEST 7KC Series 1DT (Grade 2). Those are the ones that sit alongside graded working locks in the same opening schedule.

Not reliably. The Stuttgart dummy screws to the door face and does not use the 2-1/8 inch cross bore, so on a door that already has one you are left with an open bore unless the rosette you choose is wide enough to hide it. If the door is already bored, the cleaner swap is a bored passage or dummy lockset that reuses the prep, for example the Accentra 5301LN Augusta Grade 2 passage lever or the Falcon B101 Grade 2 passage lever, which is non-handed. Use the surface mount dummy where the door is unbored or where you are hanging new slabs.

The Emtek Stuttgart dummy leverset is sold as a complete pair, which suits an inactive French door leaf trimmed on both faces. For a single face, the half dummy and single dummy peers are the Baldwin Estate 5103 half dummy, offered as a left hand version and a right hand version with the 5048 rose, the Callan Bentley Grade 2 dummy lever, and the BEST 7KC Series single dummy trim cylindrical lever lock, a Grade 2 medium duty non-keyed trim. The Baldwin half dummies are handed, so the hand has to be called out at order; the Stuttgart pair is likewise ordered right hand or left hand.

The Emtek Stuttgart lever in dummy function is a residential brass leverset, so for a heavy-traffic commercial opening the closest functional counterparts are the BEST 9K Series 1DT single dummy trim cylindrical lever lock, a Grade 1 heavy duty non-keyed dummy, and the Accentra 455LN Augusta heavy duty Grade 1 single dummy cylindrical lever lock from the 5400 Series. Both are dummy function like the Stuttgart, meaning fixed trim with no latch, but they are built to a Grade 1 heavy duty standard. Note the BEST and Accentra parts are single dummy trim, so an inactive pair of French doors needing trim on both faces takes two of them, while the Stuttgart is sold as a pair.

A dummy lever such as the Emtek Stuttgart is fixed trim with no latching mechanism, so a door that needs to stay closed against a stop takes a passage lever instead. Comparable non-keyed passage levers include the Baldwin Estate 5103 passage lever with 5048 rose, the Falcon B101 Grade 2 cylindrical passage lever with a non-handed design, and the Hager 2510 Grade 2 passage cylindrical lever with the Withnell design, which covers doors 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch thick. If the opening is a bed or bath that needs a thumbturn, the Baldwin Estate 5103 privacy lever is the same 5103 trim in privacy function.

A dummy lever carries no latch and cannot serve a rated opening. On a fire rated corridor door the peers written for it are the Falcon K101 Grade 1 heavy duty passage cylindrical lock with non-handed levers, fire rated, covering doors 1-3/8 inch to 2-1/4 inch, and the Corbin Russwin CL3110 Grade 1 vandal resistant passage/closet cylindrical lever from the CL3100 Series, fire rated, for doors 1-3/4 inch to 2 inch. The Emtek Stuttgart is a residential leverset and fits doors 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch, so it belongs on the interior openings the rated schedule does not cover.

Split finish lets the two levers in the pair be finished differently, one finish on each face of the door. Typical use is a hallway side in a finish that matches the corridor and a room side that matches the bedroom or bath hardware. It is an optional field on the order, so type the two finishes you want; leave it blank and both levers come in the single finish you selected.

No. It is non-keyed with no cylinder and no privacy turn, and there is no latch behind it to hold anything. For a bedroom or bath door you need a privacy set with a thumbturn, and for a keyed opening a keyed entry lock. Within the same look, order the Stuttgart in the working function you need rather than the dummy.

The levers and rosettes come as a complete set with their mounting screws, so nothing else is needed to attach them. What the opening still needs is whatever holds the door closed, since a dummy has no latch: a ball catch, roller catch, or magnetic catch on a closet or inactive leaf, and a flush bolt or surface bolt if the inactive leaf of a pair has to be secured top and bottom. Specify handing and, if you want two different finishes, the split finish detail at the same time.

They share the dummy function but not the build. The Accentra 455LN Augusta is a heavy duty Grade 1 single dummy cylindrical lever lock in the 5400 Series with the Augusta lever design, while the Stuttgart is a contemporary residential brass leverset offered in seven finishes from flat black through unlacquered brass and six rosette shapes including Disk, Square and Modern Rectangular. Where a decorative brass match to adjacent Emtek trim is the point, the Augusta will not carry that finish and rosette range; where an ANSI Grade 1 heavy duty specification is the point, the Augusta is the one written to it.

Anything with a working latch or cylinder is a different part even when the lever shape reads the same. The Cal-Royal AG00 entrance lever is a Grade 2 lock with a 6-pin Schlage C keyway keyed different and a 2-3/8 inch backset, and the Cal-Royal AG05 is a Grade 2 storeroom lockset with a deadlocking latchbolt - both need a bored door prep and a keying decision. The Emtek Stuttgart dummy pair is surface mount with no door prep required and is non-keyed. Electronic units like the Delaney LP250 keypad leverlock and the Lockey 2835 mechanical pushbutton keyless lever are also not dummy substitutes; they carry access control the Stuttgart does not.

For fleet standardizing on interior doors, the lighter passage options next to the Emtek Stuttgart are the Kwikset 200BRNL RDT Breton passage lever, a Grade 3 passage lock for doors 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch, the Callan Asheville Grade 3 passage leverset in satin nickel, and the Bravura Miramar with round trim passage leverset in US4 satin brass, Grade 2. The Stuttgart is also offered in Satin Brass US4 and Satin Nickel US15, so a brass or nickel look can be held consistent across the unit while the traffic doors take the plainer passage lock and the closet or French door leaf takes the dummy pair.

The Emtek Stuttgart dummy leverset covers doors 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch. For a thicker leaf, peers with a wider published range include the Deltana 6201 Manchester lever entry and the Deltana 6431 Linstead lever entry, both covering 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch, and the Hager 2510 Grade 2 passage lever at 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch. The Deltana units are entry function and the Hager is passage, so switching to them for door thickness also changes the door from fixed trim to a latching lock.

No, and that is the point of it. Unlacquered Brass (US3NL) has no clear coat, so it darkens and patinas with handling. Polished Nickel Lifetime (US14) is the finish to pick if you want the look held long term, and Satin Brass (US4) gives the warm brass tone with a protected surface. All seven finishes, including Flat Black (US19), Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Polished Chrome (US26) and Satin Nickel (US15), are available across the Stuttgart dummy.

Stuttgart is a contemporary lever, and the rosette decides how hard that reads. Square and Modern Rectangular give a straight-edged look that suits flat-panel and modern trim, Disk and Modern are round and sit comfortably against traditional casings, and Neos and Urban Modern are the more architectural shapes. Whatever you choose here, use the same rose on the passage and privacy levers in the same run of doors so the fixed and working handles match.

The Stuttgart is identified by series name rather than a numbered catalog code: it is the Emtek Stuttgart lever, dummy function, tubular lock type, ordered as a pair with a hand, a finish from seven options and one of six rosettes. The comparable dummies are called out by part number instead - the BEST 9K Series 1DT and the BEST 7KC Series single dummy trim, the Accentra 455LN Augusta, the Callan Bentley Grade 2 dummy, and the Baldwin Estate 5103 half dummy split into a left hand and a right hand part number. When cross-referencing a schedule, the Baldwin and Emtek entries both need a hand stated; the BEST 1DT trims are the same part regardless of face.