Crotal bell help.
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Gauntlet
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What exactly are you wanting help with?
shughey00
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The number usually refers to the size although if I remember correctly there was no uniform standard such that a 3 from any manufacturer was always identical in size.
Here are two links I had for crotal bells.
https://classicbells.com/info/bellMakers.html
http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/pages/crotal-bells.html#Anchor-Th-55036
Yours is late 1800's which is seen by the metal..shape and the petals only being on the lower half..IIRC.
Some may have a makers mark but while I have found quite a few over the past few decades...I never have found one with a mark.
Here are two links I had for crotal bells.
https://classicbells.com/info/bellMakers.html
http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/pages/crotal-bells.html#Anchor-Th-55036
Yours is late 1800's which is seen by the metal..shape and the petals only being on the lower half..IIRC.
Some may have a makers mark but while I have found quite a few over the past few decades...I never have found one with a mark.
bobac
Elite Member
crotal bells
Hey did you ever end up finding any more good ID sites for bells?
I just snagged one last night and I was pretty surprised to see some initials and markings on it. I see the letters WFB, and a horse??
I haven't had any luck finding positive id on it yet . But I had seen somewhere in the yahoo searches some crotal bells had the words wells fargo in some of the search results??
thanks , Bob
Hey did you ever end up finding any more good ID sites for bells?
I just snagged one last night and I was pretty surprised to see some initials and markings on it. I see the letters WFB, and a horse??
I haven't had any luck finding positive id on it yet . But I had seen somewhere in the yahoo searches some crotal bells had the words wells fargo in some of the search results??
thanks , Bob
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teotwawki12
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I found a couple of those myself last year and recall researching them. It is WEB, not WFB. William E Barton
