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--></style></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Thanks, Hayden.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>G<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Bell-historians <b>On Behalf Of </b>Hayden Charles via Bell-historians<br><b>Sent:</b> 23 November 2025 11:15<br><b>To:</b> georgebellringer--- via Bell-historians <bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk><br><b>Cc:</b> Hayden Charles <hcharles@grandsire.co.uk><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Bell Historians] Small bell dated 1822<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>If it helps, I have converted the two heic images to jpeg.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hayden Charles<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>georgebellringer--- via Bell-historians wrote on 23/11/2025 10:24:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>My compter will not open a heic .</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>G</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Bell-historians <b>On Behalf Of </b>Carl S Zimmerman via Bell-historians<br><b>Sent:</b> 23 November 2025 00:05<br><b>To:</b> Bell Historians <a href="mailto:bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk"><bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk></a><br><b>Cc:</b> Carl S Zimmerman <a href="mailto:csz_stl@swbell.net"><csz_stl@swbell.net></a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Bell Historians] Small bell dated 1822</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Attached are four photos of a 10.5-inch diameter bronze bell that was reportedly fished out of the Columbia River in the western USA about 60 years ago. No further provenance is known. It bears the date of 1822, but no other inscription. It has a tang and a cast-in clapper staple, but the clapper is missing. Since the first steamboat arrived on the Columbia River in 1835, and regular steamboat traffic did not develop until the 1850s, it seems unlikely that this was a ship's bell. My guess is that it was part of the cargo of a wrecked steamboat, in the process of being recycled from its original use elsewhere. But where that might have been I have no clue.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Does the style of the bell or its date fit with what is known of any of the British bellfoundries of that era?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Carl Scott Zimmerman, Campanologist <br>Saint Louis, Missouri, USA -<br> - 19th c. home of at least 37 bell founders or resellers <br>Tel. +1-314-821-8437 <br>Webmaster for </span><a href="http://www.TowerBells.org"><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>www.TowerBells.org</span></a><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><br> * Avocation: tower bells<br> * Recreation: handbells</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'> * Mission: church bells</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=ydp73140da6pasted-link><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Webmaster for </span></span><a href="http://www.TSCChapter134.org"><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>www.TSCChapter134.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Treasurer, World Carillon Federation</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Bell-historians mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:Bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk">Bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="https://lists.ringingworld.co.uk/listinfo/bell-historians">https://lists.ringingworld.co.uk/listinfo/bell-historians</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>