Traditional bell-shaped head without decoration. Cast in a single body with handle; the handle features two rounded knops at base, cylindrical stem and terminates in flat cookie top or finial. Brass clapper on a chain.
bells (idiophones)
brass (alloy)
Device, Sound Signaling
Bell
Bell, Service
Brass
Bell, Service
Original to Roseland Cottage (Woodstock, Conn.),
Unknown
4.125 x 2.75 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Margaret Carson Holt
1970.821
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