[Bell Historians] Small bell dated 1822

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Thanks, Hayden.

G

 

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Subject: Re: [Bell Historians] Small bell dated 1822

 

If it helps, I have converted the two heic images to jpeg.

 

Hayden Charles

 

georgebellringer--- via Bell-historians wrote on 23/11/2025 10:24:

My compter will not open a heic .

G

 

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Subject: [Bell Historians] Small bell dated 1822

 

Attached are four photos of a 10.5-inch diameter bronze bell that was reportedly fished out of the Columbia River in the western USA about 60 years ago.  No further provenance is known.  It bears the date of 1822, but no other inscription.  It has a tang and a cast-in clapper staple, but the clapper is missing.  Since the first steamboat arrived on the Columbia River in 1835, and regular steamboat traffic did not develop until the 1850s, it seems unlikely that this was a ship's bell.  My guess is that it was part of the cargo of a wrecked steamboat, in the process of being recycled from its original use elsewhere.  But where that might have been I have no clue.

 

Does the style of the bell or its date fit with what is known of any of the British bellfoundries of that era?

 

Carl Scott Zimmerman, Campanologist 
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