Lg Bell, 58 Qtr, 40 Merc, 3 IHs, Token

[TommNJ]

Here's a pic of what my trunk usually looks like after a stop here and there during the week. This week I did managed some silver (58 Qtr, 40 Merc) and 3 IHs but they're in tough shape and hard to get dates from. The spoon has "WM Rogers & Son AA" on it, I do like the token but the other side got some iron stuck to it ?. The token feels like aluminum but looks like a piece of iron that is rusting, maybe it was laying in some iron ? I tried out some new woods recently and that's where I found the bell, it's got some cracks I guess from the ground freezing around it, it was a good 6" down. I also dug a lot of nails and some horse shoes in the area. If anyone could give me a age on the bell and what the "W B" represents ? Thanks & thanks for looking !

TommNJ

 

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[muleskinner]

Great coins and silverware, but I love that bell. Gotta dig one up one of these days.

 

[cntrydncr1]

awesome bell! congrats

 

[Mike in Berks]

Nice finds TommNJ especially the bell
I did a little searching. This might be the guy ..... might not

Horse-bell Heyday: 1800s

In the very early 1800s, William Barton started what would become a thriving sleigh bell industry in East Hampton, Connecticut, USA. Barton's willingness to teach the sleigh bell trade to others was a key reason why East Hampton earned worldwide fame as "Belltown" or "Jingletown" in the 1800s.

"...The manufacturing enterprise of [East Hampton] and its general prosperity are traceable to no one man more than to William Barton... He came to East Hampton in 1808 and commenced the making of hand bells and sleigh bells. Others learned the trade with him, and afterwards engaged in the same business...." (2)
Other individuals also contributed to East Hampton's later fame.

"...By the end of the 1800s, East Hampton bell maker N. N. Hill had developed a process of stamping sleigh bells out of sheet metal.... While casting bells, two skilled workmen could make about 500 bells in one day. [W]ith stamping, one man can produce 25,000 bells!...

"In 1839, the total number of bells manufactured in East Hampton was reported at about 14,000 sleigh bells and house bells combined. Only 11 years later, an 1850 industrial census reported the annual total of sleigh bells made in town jumped to '245,000 dozen,' almost three million bells....

"By the late 1800s, the many bell makers of East Hampton provided 90% of the world's sleigh bells...."

This is where i found it: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080922184808AAXggrY

good luck diggin Mike

 

[Woodland Detectors]

I really like the Crotal/ sleigh bell!~

 

[teleman 2525]

i found abell just like that

 

[HCW]

Crotal bell . I found a couple.

 

[creeper71]

Nice finds TommNJ especially the bell
I did a little searching. This might be the guy ..... might not

Horse-bell Heyday: 1800s

In the very early 1800s, William Barton started what would become a thriving sleigh bell industry in East Hampton, Connecticut, USA. Barton's willingness to teach the sleigh bell trade to others was a key reason why East Hampton earned worldwide fame as "Belltown" or "Jingletown" in the 1800s.

"...The manufacturing enterprise of [East Hampton] and its general prosperity are traceable to no one man more than to William Barton... He came to East Hampton in 1808 and commenced the making of hand bells and sleigh bells. Others learned the trade with him, and afterwards engaged in the same business...." (2)
Other individuals also contributed to East Hampton's later fame.

"...By the end of the 1800s, East Hampton bell maker N. N. Hill had developed a process of stamping sleigh bells out of sheet metal.... While casting bells, two skilled workmen could make about 500 bells in one day. [W]ith stamping, one man can produce 25,000 bells!...

"In 1839, the total number of bells manufactured in East Hampton was reported at about 14,000 sleigh bells and house bells combined. Only 11 years later, an 1850 industrial census reported the annual total of sleigh bells made in town jumped to '245,000 dozen,' almost three million bells....

"By the late 1800s, the many bell makers of East Hampton provided 90% of the world's sleigh bells...."

This is where i found it: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080922184808AAXggrY

good luck diggin Mike

I don't think it's the guy, but I also can't see all the intials to say for sure...

 

[TommNJ]

Thanks for the information, link and comments, I thought there was others letters but they just look like circles.

TommNJ

 

[Mike in Berks]

TommNJ You might want to contact these people Maybe they can help you
with the mark on your bell ? ?

http://classicbells.com/index.htm

 

[mastereagle22]

I love those bells, one day I hope to find one. I need to do some research on what they were used for exactly, might help me know where to search for one.

Good finds

 

[creeper71]

Thanks for the information, link and comments, I thought there was others letters but they just look like circles.

TommNJ

I stand corrected as I too thought there was more then 2 letters... william Barton is probly the correct answer

 

[TommNJ]

Cool, thanks Mike/guys, possibly him or his son made it.

East Hampton, Connecticut: Barton clan

Captain William Barton (Sr.) (1740?-1793?)
Possibly W B maker's mark on petal bells.
Captain William Barton may have started to make sleigh bells in the earlly 1770s. He lived in Wintonbury (now Bloomfield), Connecticut. (6) and was married to Sarah Sage. (3)

William Barton (Jr.) (1762-1849)
W B or B W maker's mark on petal bells