door knocker

Turning over a lot of ancient rubbish in a box one day, he came across a heavy old brass door-knocker with "E. Gano" on it.

She went out of the room as quickly as she had come into it because she heard the sound of the cheap little door knocker.

He might be some sort of devilish door-knocker, dropped down and crawling about the pavement.

Sometimes it is only a century-old door knocker or an ancient vine-covered wall—but it is a breath from the gracious past.

I would suggest tied on to the door-knocker, to save him the trouble of coming down the chimney.