What is this? A doorknob?

[veggieguy]

Hi, got this interesting item as part of a box lot, but have no clue what it is.  It most closely resembles a doorknob, but ... is it really? The metal of the "knob" is not magnetic, but the threaded portion is.  I'm assuming the bend is not intentional.

Any ideas appreciated!

[gg27]

Looks like a curtain tie back, should have been a pair & you're right the screw in part shouldn't be bent.  But you didn't give me a size or scale, but it resembles ones I have sold in the store.  GG

[veggieguy]

Oops, I meant to include measurements:

* Round portion is about 3" in diameter
* Shaft is about 3.5" long and 3/16" diameter

[sugarcube5419]

GG nailed it for you already

[gg27]

I realized after I said tiebacks that they could be picture hangers.  Somewhere I have some really cool ones.  You screw the double ended screw into the wall & then screw on the decorative piece.  But with those dimensions it is definitely curtain tiebacks.  GG

[mart]

Think that's right !! Too thin for a doorknob !! Its probably brass !!

[KC]

My first guess was tieback and I also thought about how they had hung vintage pictures with the knobbed hangers!

[veggieguy]

Thanks, I would never have come up with curtain tie on my own.  Too bad I have only one of them. Maybe I'll think of a use for it some day.