[Bell Historians] Button Tops.

[Richard Offen]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Higson, Bellmaster" 
<andrew_higson at t...> wrote:
> How very personal!
> 
> I have seen button top bells by JT, M&S and L&J, but I don't know 
for sure the configuration of the wires.The M&S ones I've seen don't 
have top wires. JT ones have their standard arrangement of 
2,2,inscription band,2,3,2. The L&J one we have in the museum is a 
very odd squat and angular shape.
> 
> If they came from Glasgow, they could be by Wilson...
> 
> Andrew

The M & S ones were probably buoy bells: sand castings from a pattern 
that had some of the wires removed to make extracting it from the 
mold easier.

R