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

[David Sloman dsloman261@gmail.com [bellhistorians]]

Ilketshall St. Lawrence is about the right diameter for the 1619 bell, is
this a possibility, an unhung cracked bell?
David Sloman

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 10:02 AM 'Chris Pickford'
c.j.pickford.t21 at btinternet.com [bellhistorians] <
bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> 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) –
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> 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)
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> Maybe these two – although sold together – probably did come from separate
> locations
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> *Chris Pickford*
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