door-plate

On the TV screen, the door-plate was pretty clearly seen as "815", but I can see from trying to make the image clearer that it could be interpreted as "813".

Archive 2009-07-12 Toby O'B 2009

They led to a room whose door-plate said PRINCESS IDA.

Pet Peeve Anthony, Piers 2005

He told me one day that literature was not a trade; that it was no craft; that the professed author was merely an amateur with a door-plate.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

Brown, not a Jones, not a Robinson; they are all names that one would stop and look at on a door-plate.

Lay Morals 2005

Reasoning like this, Mr. Golyadkin mounted to the second storey and stopped before flat number five, on which there was a handsome brass door-plate with the inscription —

The Double 2003

She has a beautiful white hand, but her handwriting is infamous; she writes fast and her chirography is of the door-plate order — her letters are immense.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

The door-plate closed softly behind him, and Braden crouched in the abysmal dark.

The Other Side Of Nowhere Leinster, Murray 1964

The lack-lustre eye, rayless as a Beacon-Street door-plate in August, all at once fills with light; the face flings itself wide open like the church-portals when the bride and bridegroom enter; the little man grows in stature before your eyes, like the small prisoner with hair on end, beloved yet dreaded of early childhood; you were talking with a dwarf and an imbecile, -- you have a giant and a trumpet-tongued angel before you!

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various

Not a chair or a window blind, or even a door-plate or handle, is to be seen in any of the rooms, except in those used for the concerts, and the question arose, naturally enough.

The Insurrection in Paris

It was a shining door-plate for the big heart behind it.

Mary Rose of Mifflin Frances R. Sterrett