Emtek Traditional Brass Paper Holder - Bar Style

That's the point of the rosette axis. The Traditional bath hardware paper holder is ordered with the same rosette designs Emtek uses on its door hardware, twelve of them: #8, Arts & Crafts Rectangular, Lancaster (06), Oval (2), Quincy (31), Rectangular (3), Regular (0), Ribbon & Reed (7), Rope (1), Small Regular (20), Watford (22) and Wilshire (61). Pick the rosette that matches your door rosettes and the finish that matches your knobs, and the bath accessory reads as part of the same set. Most competitor paper holders give you finish only.

Wall mount, and the bar is the 3-3/8 inch size. It mounts on two rosettes with the roller bar spanning between them, so you need solid backing or anchors at both rosette locations, not just one. Cross-post style holders like the Deltana 55D2001 single post mount from one point instead, which is a different anchoring job in tile.

It's a residential-grade accessory. Emtek classes the Traditional brass bath hardware as residential, so it suits single-family, condo and high-end multi-family unit bathrooms rather than public restrooms in an office building, school or airport terminal. For a commercial restroom taking public traffic, spec a commercial washroom accessory line instead, not this one.

Three things: finish, rosette and size. Finish is one of nine US codes, rosette is one of twelve designs, and the bar is 3-3/8 inches. The rosette is the one buyers forget, and it's the one that decides whether the accessory matches the door hardware in the room. Confirm which rosette your Emtek knobs or levers use before you place the order, because ordering the finish right and the rosette wrong still leaves you mismatched.

The Deltana 98C2001 is a Classic double post toilet paper holder in solid brass from Deltana's 98C Series. The Emtek Traditional brass paper holder is a bar-style holder in brass, where the roll rides on a bar spanning two posts, and it is offered in nine finishes including Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Polished Nickel (US14) and Unlacquered Brass (US3NL). Choose the 98C2001 when you want a double post carrier in a Deltana series; choose the Emtek when you are matching the Traditional bath group and want the rosette to match the door hardware already in the room.

Two single post options are the Deltana 55D2001, a single post toilet paper holder in solid brass from the 55D Series, and the Deltana BBN2001, a single post holder in the BBN Series. A single post carries the roll on one arm and needs clearance on one side only, so it suits a wall return or a spot beside a vanity where a bar-style holder like the Emtek Traditional brass paper holder needs the full width for both mounting points.

Nine, and they line up with Emtek's door hardware finishes so a bathroom can be specified as one package: Flat Black (US19), French Antique (US7), Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Pewter (US15A), Polished Brass - Lifetime (US3), Polished Chrome (US26), Polished Nickel (US14), Satin Nickel (US15) and Unlacquered Brass (US3NL). If you're standardizing a whole house or a unit turn, order the paper holder in the same US number you specified on the levers.

A bar style holder like the Emtek Traditional carries a roller bar between two mounted rosettes, so the roll is captured at both ends and the spindle stays put. A single post holder, such as the Deltana 55D2001 or the Deltana BBN2001, cantilevers off one mount and lets the roll slide on and off from the open end, which is faster to change but leans on one anchor point. Double post holders like the Deltana 98C2001 sit between the two. In a rental or a high-turnover unit, the open post is quicker to service; where you want the roll to stay where you put it, the bar wins.

If you're outfitting units where finish matching to the door hardware isn't the point, the Orca Hardware holders cover the same function in simpler series: the 2752 Cypress and the 4852 Blakely both use a plastic tube roller, and the 3655 Swirl and 5255 Ripple are Euro-style holders. Those are the practical choice for turns and repairs. Where you're specifying a whole bathroom to match Emtek knobs and rosettes, none of them will match, and that's the trade.

Emtek's Traditional brass bar-style holder is brass through, in an American Classic traditional look, and the rosette choices (Rope, Ribbon & Reed, Lancaster, Arts & Crafts Rectangular) are period-appropriate rather than contemporary. Deltana also has solid brass traditional holders: the 55D2001 single post in the 55D Series, the 88DTPH in the 88 Series, and the 98C2001 double post in the 98C Series. Go Emtek if the door hardware in the room is Emtek and you want the rosettes to agree; go Deltana if it's a standalone accessory replacement.

The Orca Hardware 2752 in the 27-Cypress Series and the Orca Hardware 4852 Blakely in the 48-Blakely Series both carry the roll on a plastic tube. For a rental turn or a multi-family unit where a spinning roller takes daily abuse and gets swapped rather than refinished, the plastic tube is the maintenance item. The Emtek Traditional paper holder is a brass bar-style unit, so the carrier is part of the finished assembly and matches the finish of the posts.

The Orca Hardware 3655 Swirl Euro and the Orca Hardware 5255 Ripple Euro are Euro-style paper holders in the 36-Swirl and 52-Ripple series respectively. The Emtek Traditional brass paper holder is a Traditional-style, American Classic piece, and its bar-style body mounts on a rosette chosen from twelve patterns such as Ribbon & Reed (7), Rope (1) and Arts & Crafts Rectangular. Go Euro when the room reads modern; stay with the Emtek when the bath is being detailed to match traditional door hardware.

They are both solid brass wall-mounted paper holders but they are not interchangeable. The Deltana 88DTPH is a toilet paper holder in Deltana's 88 Series, a self-contained design with its own escutcheon detailing. The Emtek Traditional brass paper holder is built around a selectable rosette - Lancaster (06), Quincy (31), Watford (22), Wilshire (61) and others - so the backplate can be matched to Emtek knobs and levers elsewhere in the house. If the point of the specification is that rosette match, the 88DTPH will not deliver it.

Flat Black is Emtek's US19, and the bath hardware uses the same finish designations as the door hardware, so specifying US19 on both puts them in the same finish family. Same logic for Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Satin Nickel (US15) and the rest. The one to watch is Unlacquered Brass (US3NL): it's a living finish that darkens with handling, so a holder installed years apart from the levers won't be at the same point in its patina.

Both are brass. The difference is how you standardize. Deltana's brass paper holders come as series-committed items - 55D2001 in the 55D Series, 88DTPH in the 88 Series, 98C2001 in the 98C Series, BBN2001 in the BBN Series - so you pick the series and the look is set. The Emtek Traditional brass paper holder is specified as a combination of finish and rosette, nine finishes from Flat Black (US19) through Polished Chrome (US26) crossed with twelve rosette patterns, which is how you carry one finish and one backplate detail across every bath in the job.