3 Mysteries

SmirkAtTheMerc · Oct 6, 2019

These three items are mysteries to me!

I don't know what these are. I found item number 1 (in the picture showing them side by side) just a couple days ago at an old farm house site. Early 1900s. Sorry I forgot to add the sizes with a penny!
The next item (2) I found at the same place on the same day. Item 3 I found a few months ago in the woods.

A little help?

KOB · Oct 6, 2019

It #2 looks like it's from a bell or buzzer of some sort.

Stiffwrists · Oct 6, 2019

KOB said:
It #2 looks like it's from a bell or buzzer of some sort.

X2 maybe from a bicycle.

SmirkAtTheMerc · Oct 7, 2019

Yes, that looks like the bike bell

ecmo · Nov 10, 2019

Bike bell or I've never taken one apart but possibly from a rotary dial phone.

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Edsel Detector · Nov 11, 2019

Last piece with the splines looks like a post where a windshield wiper arm attaches on a car.

ecmo · Nov 11, 2019

Edsel Detector said:
Last piece with the splines looks like a post where a windshield wiper arm attaches on a car.

I think you're right about that. The more I look at the bell the more I believe bike bell is correct, and that small clamp looking piece with two holes may have been the clamp that went around bicycle handle bars to hold the bell on.

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Foragist · Nov 11, 2019

ecmo said:
Bike bell or I've never taken one apart but possibly from a rotary dial phone.

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"Telephone ringer bell" was my first impression, too, but they were not typically chromed. This bell is chromed, and appears to be a little bigger, and maybe thinner metal than the old telephone bells usually were. I would bet "bike bell" is the correct ID.
Not so sure about the other 2 pieces.

SmirkAtTheMerc · Nov 17, 2019

Foragist said:
"Telephone ringer bell" was my first impression, too, but they were not typically chromed. This bell is chromed, and appears to be a little bigger, and maybe thinner metal than the old telephone bells usually were. I would bet "bike bell" is the correct ID.
Not so sure about the other 2 pieces.

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Thank you! :yes:

jimther · Nov 17, 2019

On any handlebar bike bells I’ve seen, the clapper mechanism was mounted on the inside of the bell, versus outside, as in the second photo. In the found one, is there a circular wear pattern on the interior of the unit, where an interior clapper made contact when the actuating lever was pulled?

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