[Bell Historians] Squat bell

[Roderic Bickerton rodbick@gmail.com [bellhistorians]]

Perhaps Harrison bells will give an idea.

On 10 Sep 2017 8:54 pm, "John Harrison john at jaharrison.me.uk
[bellhistorians]" <bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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>
> One of the bells I saw while on holiday in France was extremely squat.
> Excluding canons it was ~17" high and ~34" diameter.
>
> It was standing on a pallet so no idea what it sounds like.
>
> There are pictures of it at:
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> http://jaharrison.me.uk/Temp/SarlatBell1.jpg
> http://jaharrison.me.uk/Temp/SarlatBell2.jpg
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> The inscription (on the back and difficult to see, not visible in the
> pictures) is:
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> 1825 AUGUSTIN MARTIN PAINTANDRE ET CAUSARD TONDEURS
>
> Any idea why it was that shape, which I haven't seen before?
>
> Regards
>
> --
> John Harrison
> Website http://jaharrison.me.uk
> 
>
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