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Bell, School

Object/Artifact

Large brass handbell with a wooden handle for calling together school children; bell handle has a nut and bolt at top, then a baluster shaped handle of wood with two incised lines at the shoulder; neck then descends to an attachment to a brass cylindrical collar with a turned lip and stem with annular rings; handle and collar are then attached with the bolt to a bell shaped spun brass bell with a flat top; top is chamfered with an ogee molding, thence to a flared bell and base with a concave ring, then a stepped ring, then a bulbous base; interior of the bell has an iron chain secured to the handle bolt with an eye bolt, then to an iron ball as a clapper.

2008.005.152

Beulah Marshall Bailey Collection

1812 - 1900

10-1/2 in

5-5/8 in

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Brass

Iron

Wood

Spinning Wheel's Collectible Iron, Tin, Copper & Brass. Revi, Albert Christian. Castle Books. 1974. American Copper & Brass. Kauffman, Henry J. Thomas Nelson & Sons. New Jersey. 1968. Pgs. 163-182.

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