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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Can anyone help with this
one?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>I recently examined the bells at Clent,
and found that on the third (by Joseph Smith of Edgbaston, 1718) H.B. Walters
had missed a row of symbols in the first row of decoration below the inscription
band. Using the nearest available characters in MS Word, the symbols
are something like:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN
style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings">f
</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">*
:<FONT face=Wingdings> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN
style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings">f
</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN
style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings">d
</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">:
8 </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN
style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings">`
</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">:<FONT
face=Wingdings> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN
style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings">e
</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN
style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings">`
</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">:
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<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Most are near matches, except the 8 which is like a
pair of spectacles set diagonally (no MS symbol equivalent). Basically, these
are pairs of symbols separated by colons.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>I have uploaded a scanned copy of my rubbing on the
"photos pages" of the Historians site, although (my first attempt) I bungled it
and instead of starting a new album the picture appears alongside the recently
posted photo of Tundtall bells. It's called "Clent rubbing" - and is actually
two strips of paper in which the lower one should follow the top one
end-to-end</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Can anyone advise me on either the meaning of the
individual symbols or the significance of the whole string?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Chris Pickford</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>