Schaub 817 French Court Cabinet Knob with 7-3/8" Backplate

The 817 knob comes on a backplate measuring 7-3/8 x 1-1/4 inches overall, so it covers a tall, narrow footprint on the door or drawer face. Measure the old plate before pulling it: anything that left marks or holes outside that 7-3/8 by 1-1/4 inch envelope will still show. The knob itself mounts through a single center bore, so extra holes from a two-hole pull will not be hidden unless they fall under the plate.

The Deltana KRB175 Round Knob with Groove is a 1-3/4 inch diameter solid brass round knob, so it covers the same solid brass cabinet knob role without the 7-3/8 inch backplate the Schaub 817 carries. The 817 pairs a 1-1/4 inch by 1-3/8 inch knob with a 7-3/8 inch by 1-1/4 inch backplate, which changes the drilling and the visual footprint on the door face; the KRB175 mounts as a single knob on one hole. Choose the 817 when you want the plate to cover existing marks or wear on the cabinet face, and the KRB175 when the face is clean and you want a smaller footprint.

No. The Emtek 8665 is part of the Emtek SELECT series and is catalogued as a cabinet knob/pull, meaning it serves in either role, while the Schaub 817 is a cabinet knob in the French Court collection with the Symphony Elegance styling. Emtek does carry a Schaub collection, which is why the two names appear together, but the 8665 is a distinct series and not the 817. If a designer specified French Court, the 8665 will not match it.

Projection is 1-1/2 inches. That matters in a galley kitchen or a tight butler's pantry where a walkway passes the door, and it matters on a drawer bank next to an appliance door swing. It also gives a decent grip depth for a knob whose head measures 1-1/4 by 1-3/8 inches, so hands get behind it rather than pinching at the face.

Solid brass, base material through the knob and backplate. For a property manager or a hospitality buyer that is the part worth knowing: brass castings do not fatigue at the screw boss the way zinc alloy knobs do after a few years of daily pulls, and the finish sits on brass rather than on a plated substrate.

Three: Monticello Brass (MBR), Monticello Silver (MSL), and White Brass (WB). That is the full range on the 817. Monticello Brass and Monticello Silver are the two-tone French Court treatments, warm and cool respectively; White Brass is the lighter single-tone. If you are matching an existing run of French Court hardware, order the suffix code off the back of one of the installed pieces rather than matching by eye, because MSL and WB read close under warm kitchen lighting.

A backplate knob does two jobs a bare knob will not. It hides damage, old holes, and finish wear on the door face, and it gives a decorative anchor on a large flat slab door where a 1-1/4 inch knob alone looks lost. The 817 runs a 7-3/8 inch plate, which is long enough to read as a vertical accent on a full-height pantry or a tall wall cabinet door. If your fronts are clean, or you are doing a wide drawer bank where a horizontal pull suits better, a plain knob such as the Orca Hardware CK-18032 Mission Round or the Deltana KRB175, a 1-3/4 inch solid brass round knob, is the simpler buy.

No special prep. It takes one center hole for the 8/32 screw, driven from inside the door, same as any standard cabinet knob. The backplate is captured between the knob and the door face by that single screw, so alignment is set by how you rotate the plate before final tightening. Mark a plumb line on the door face first, because a 7-3/8 inch plate shows a twist of even a degree or two.

The Orca Hardware CK-18032 Mission Round Cabinet Knob from the 18-Mission Collection and the Orca CK-19032 Whistler Cabinet Knob from the 19-Whistler Collection are both straightforward cabinet knobs without the 7-3/8 inch backplate the Schaub 817 uses. The 817 is a decorative French Court piece with a 1-1/2 inch projection off the face; the Orca knobs suit runs where the appearance does not need to match a decorative kitchen or millwork package. Many property managers use the 817 on the front-of-house cabinetry and a plain round knob everywhere else.

Two decorative options sit alongside it. The Emtek Art Deco Cabinet Knob in the Art Deco series carries a period geometric styling, and the Emtek Astoria Glass Cabinet Knob in the Astoria series uses glass rather than the solid brass base the Schaub 817 is built from. Both are catalogued as cabinet knob/pull. If the millwork calls for a decorative knob but the French Court and Symphony Elegance styling of the 817 does not suit the room, those two are where to look first.

The Delaney Solid Brass Cabinet Knob is a solid brass cabinet knob and covers the same basic material requirement as the Schaub 817, which is also solid brass. The difference is the backplate: the 817 comes with a 7-3/8 inch by 1-1/4 inch plate and is offered in Monticello Brass, Monticello Silver, and White Brass, so if the job is standardizing a fleet of cabinets on one of those three finishes the 817 is the one to hold. For a single replacement knob where only the material matters, the Delaney is the simpler pick.

Schaub designs are also carried under the Emtek Schaub Collection, which includes the Emtek 8665 Select cabinet knobs and pulls, the Allerton cabinet knob, and the Art Deco cabinet knob. Those are the closest lineage matches when you need a different form factor across the same kitchen. Confirm the finish code matches before mixing, since finish naming carries across the Schaub line but the plate and knob geometry does not.

The 817 is one cabinet knob supplied with its 7-3/8 inch backplate, quoted as a single overall assembly of 7-3/8 by 1-1/4 inches. You do not order the plate separately. Count doors, not doors plus plates, when you build the order for a full kitchen.