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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">Have been following this one for a
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Oswestry dealer inscribed </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"
lang=EN-GB>waist (<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Royal Arms</I>) / E
& T JONES / 46 DUKE STREET / LIVERPOOL Soundbow: 1853 (full inscription not
visible from photo). Diameter 17”. Peg argent cut off. (</SPAN><SPAN
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lang=EN-GB>David Kelly, 13 January 2010)</SPAN></P>
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T. Jones, brassfounders, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
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w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">46 Duke Street</st1:address></st1:Street>
listed in 1855 Directory (web search); There is only one Jones listed as a
brassfounder and that is Edward Jones & Co of 46 Duke Street, Liverpool.
This entry is in the Directory for 1851 and 1855 - we don’t have an 1853 copy
(</SPAN><SPAN class=si><SPAN
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lang=EN-GB>Liverpool Record Office)</SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma" lang=EN-GB>Same bell
later appeared on eBay in ownership of Cannock dealer (UK Architectural Antiques
Ltd) priced at £1800. Photos show inscription exactly as above. Diameter 17”,
weight 55kg (1-0-9¼) (eBay, August 2010)</SPAN></P>
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face="Comic Sans MS"><FONT size=2>Bryan McCahey thinks it could possibly have
come from <SPAN
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lang=EN-GB>St. John the Divine, <st1:City w:st="on">Fairfield</st1:City>,
<st1:place w:st="on">Liverpool</st1:place> was built 1851-53. The framing
survives, but the bell was apparently sold in
1980</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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