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

['David Kelly' david@thekloof.co.uk [bellhistorians]]

Sorry for the late posting; I have been away on holiday and without access to the Keltek Trust records.

In April 2018 Norfolk Antique & Reclamation Centre offered for sale on ebay two Brend bells:

Willian Brend 1619 Diameter 24”, height 27” – removed from a church some time ago and has been in storage. The bell is cracked..

William Brend 1624 Diameter 30.5”, height 36” 

There was no comment about the 1624 bell being removed from a church so they may well have come from different places.

 

Dave

 

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Certainly a possibility – the inscription matches no.2 at Ilketshall St Lawrence as given by Raven. RWMC’s notes (at Suffolk Record Office) might help. Philip Denton notes that the files includes reports dated 29/4/61 and 24/6/93

 

Chris Pickford

 

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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 <mailto:c.j.pickford.t21 at btinternet.com>  [bellhistorians] <bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com <mailto:bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com> > wrote:

  

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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