[Bell Historians] "British bell tolls again in land of Bengal's Nawabs"

[Richard Offen richard.offen@iinet.net.au [bellhistorians]]

> From: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com [mailto:bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com] 
> Sent: 21 September 2014 20:12
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> Subject: [Bell Historians] "British bell tolls again in land of Bengal's Nawabs"
> 
>  This news article unfortunately has no photo of the bell in question:
> 
>  http://news.oneindia.in/feature/british-bell-tolls-again-in-land-of-bengals-nawabs-1521942.html
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>  The bell, dated 1832, was "sourced from London's G a nd C Company [and] weighs nearly 100 kg."
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> Carl Scott Zimmerman
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> _On 22 Sep 2014, at 6:44 am, "'David Cawley' davidl.cawley at btinternet.com [bellhistorians]" <bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Presumably “London’s C and G Company = C & G Mears 
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> DLC
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If the date of the bell is, as stated, 1832,  then it must be a Thomas Mears bell, not C & G Mears. 

R
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