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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>N.B.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Authoritative overtures =3D Charm !</FONT>=
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>DLC</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A href=3D"mailto:dickon.love@a..."=20
title=3Ddickon.love@a...>LOVE, Dickon</A> </DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A=20
href=3D"mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com"=20
title=3Dbellhistorians@yahoogroups.com>Bell Historians (E-mail)</A> </DIV=
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, January 31, 2005 2:5=
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PM</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> FW: [Bell Historians] Bel=
l on=20
ebay</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><TT>Sam:<BR><A=20
href=3D"http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3D60=
201&item=3D37789054">http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am=
p;category=3D60201&item=3D37789054</A><BR>55&rd=3D1&ssPageName=
=3DWDVW<BR><BR><BR>This=20
reminds me that DLC, Churchwarden Kisch and myself were in Tunbridge<BR>W=
ells=20
on Saturday and came upon an antique shop with 3 bells in the window.<BR>=
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was a small brass bell, another was a Warner school bell (about=20
10"<BR>diameter), and the 3rd was an 1877 Taylor bell of 15" in diameter.=
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(The<BR>dealer didn't know where it had come from.)<BR><BR>He was asking =
GBP=20
450 for the large bell and GBP 380 for the Warner bell!!<BR><BR>He might =
have=20
been impressed with DLC's authoritative overtures to start<BR>with, but w=
asn't=20
too happy when we sneered at the price clearly uninterested<BR>in doing m=
ore=20
than poking at these things with a tape=20
measure!<BR><BR>DrL<BR><BR><BR><BR>______________________________________=
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