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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>NV buttons/flanges have only a central (thick) stem.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Buoy bells by whoever have the same.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>However Taylors usual type for ringing bells (trebles of higher
number rings are of a flange fitting on (usually) three pillars. (see Elphick,
Craft of the Bellfounder, p.43).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>George<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>Why should
there be a lot? Button or flange headed bells aren’t particularly common.
They are generally found on Naylor Vickers steel bells (all of them), some Taylor
bells of the first half of the C20 (generally the trebles of 12s or 10s),
trebles of some G&J higher-number ring, and on Trinity House buoy bells.
Apart from these cases, they are very rare.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>David</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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