Furniture handles, in either wood or metal, are usually of the knob, bail, drop or falling variety. In Jacobean times turned wooden handles were much in use, and also rings of wrought iron of various shapes, probably suggested by the handles found on church doors and ecclesiastical furniture. Many of these handles were afterwards removed and replaced by others of later date. During the reign of William and Mary brass was first used for handles. At that time they assumed the form of small falling handles either solid or of flat metal, shaped and chased, fixed inside the door or drawer by means of two flat shafts of iron and bent back in a similar manner to a paper fastener of the present day. The bail was in use at the same time, with or without a back plate. In the Queen Anne period the back plate was a piece of flat metal shaped and ornamented by piercings and chasings; later it was often made to do duty as an escutcheon to the keyhole. When a back plate was not used, the sockets of the handles were provided with rosettes, more or less ornamental, next the woodwork. In the middle of the eighteenth century back plates were little used, and the key was often made to serve the purpose of a handle to cabinet doors and drawers. In the later schools of that century, beautifully designed round and oval handles were made in which the handle was almost lost to view in the back plate. A ring handle depending from a lion's mouth was a favourite design with Sheraton.