[Bell Historians] Seventeenth-century Bells and mortars for sale

['Chris Pickford' c.j.pickford.t21@btinternet.com [bellhistorians]]

The Bonhams catalogue gives the diameter of the 1619 bell as 60cm (i.e. 23.625”). That bell has a swing-chiming headstock (assuming the stock sold with it does actually belong to that bell) – 

 

There would seem to be a clock-hammer indentation on the soundbow of the 1624 bell – not in line with the canons (so the hammer would have struck at an angle)

 

Maybe these two – although sold together – probably did come from separate locations

 

Chris Pickford

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