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Hand-held "school"-type bell; brass body with incised line near mouth; iron ball clapper connected to a shaft that is connected to a rod going through center of handle and terminating in a brass finial; wodden ring and vase turned handle, painted black.
bells (idiophones)
brass (alloy)
iron (metal)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
Brass
Iron
Painted
BELL, SCHOOL
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
7 (H), 3.875 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.638
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