Handrails

Round handrails began to replace the profiled handrails in the first half of the 19th century. The model for our handrail comes from a farm in southern Dalarna and is one of the earliest we know of, probably made around 1820. The pole has sturdy hand-turned end knobs with a period look and iron wall brackets. The pole comes from a farm that was not quite finished. Therefore it is unpainted. A likely color scheme would have been gray with black knobs.

Turned handrails from the period after 1860 include wall brackets, usually in brass, but from the turn of the century 1900, also in nickel-plated design. Gysinge’s cast handrail holders are distinguished by their high quality, including a machined slender shape, highly polished but unlacquered surface (ages softly and naturally) and a cast carnis profile around the plate. The latter is a decoration that reappears on many details around the turn of the century 1900 and which makes the handrail holders fit especially well into interiors where there are more of Gysinge’s well-made fittings.

Model: Residential house from 1917, Munkhagsg 24, Mariefred

Period: 1880-1950

Screw not included.

Fitting screw number 16.