------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C541D9.9E8EE240 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I found this wonderful photograph of the Gillett Freedom Bell at the docks= : >=20 > http://www.sujet.de/freiheitsglocke/s3_e_b1.html >=20 > From this picture, it looks as if the bell was shipped hung in its=20 > frame. This brings one to speculate if it would have started to ring=20 > during passage in a rough sea?!!! The picture is on p.27 of the Book The Freedom Bell in Berlin by Veronika L= iebau & Andreas W Daum (ISBN 3-89773-023-5). For those not in the know it went on a tour of America before going to Scho= neberg Town Hall (where copies of the book can be obtained). In recent times it was cracked & welded. GAD ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C541D9.9E8EE240 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable