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#42 - Advertising Charm – Brass Bell – SCHULMERICH CARILLONS – Bells & Chimes Maker

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Other Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:50.00 - 250.00 USD
#42 - Advertising Charm – Brass Bell – SCHULMERICH CARILLONS – Bells & Chimes Maker
Auction Information

“HORSESHOE COINS & ANTIQUES AUCTION"

Horseshoe Coins & Antiques, LLC

Location: Horseshoe Bldg., Blaine, Washington

Also, won’t be able to invoice and pack till after this weekend, into next week!

Please be patient, must be away from computer till Tuesday next week.

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Offered in this lot is a rare little advertising charm from the early 1900s, in the shape of a bell and measuring only 35mm in height.

Black background with slightly raised lettering reads on obverse;
(Logo of Company S C with horizontal lines of bell above and below, with ball clapper visible.

Reverse side legend reads;
WORLDS / LARGEST / PRODUCER / of / CARILLONS / BELLS / and / CHIMES / SCHULMERICH CARILLONS, INC. / Carillon Hill / SELLERSVILLE, PA.

Original patina and in overall very good used condition.

Add to your collection today.

Below is some further info on these wonderful bells courtesy of Wiki:

A carillon is a musical instrument typically housed in the bell tower (belfry) of a church or municipal building.

The instrument consists of at least 23 cast bronze, cup-shaped bells, which are played serially to produce a melody, or together to play a chord.

A traditional manual carillon is played by striking a keyboard—the stick-like keys of which are called batons—with the fists, and by pressing the keys of a pedal keyboard with the feet. The keys mechanically activate levers and wires connected to metal clappers which strike the bells.

Although unusual, real carillons have occasionally been fitted to theater organs (instead of the metal bars or chimes more often used in simulation), such as the Christie organ at the Regal Cinema, Marble Arch, in London.

A carillon-like instrument with fewer than 23 bells is called a chime.

The largest carillon in the world, with 120 bells, is in the Palace of Mafra in Portugal.

The carillon is the second heaviest of all extant musical instruments, ranking behind only the largest pipe organs. The heaviest carillon in the world (at Riverside Church in New York City) weighs over 100 short tons (91 tonnes), whereas the Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia weighs 287 short tons (260 tonnes).

The word "carillon" is said to originate from the French quadrillon, meaning four bells. In German, a carillon is called a Glockenspiel. The percussion instrument called a glockenspiel by English speakers is often called a carillon in French.

History;

The Hemony carillon of the Zuiderkerk in Amsterdam was installed in 1656.
In medieval times, swinging bells were first used as a way of notifying people of imminent church services, and for such as fires, storms, wars and other secular events.

However, the use of bells to play melodic musical compositions originated in the 16th century in the Low Countries. The first carillon was in Flanders, where a fool performed music on the bells of Oudenaarde Town Hall in 1510 by using a baton keyboard.

Major figures in the evolution of the modern carillon were Pieter and François Hemony working in the 17th century. They are credited as being the greatest carillon bell founders in the history of the Low Countries.

They developed the carillon, in collaboration with Jacob van Eyck, into a full-fledged musical instrument by casting the first tuned carillon in 1644, which was installed in Zutphens Wijnhuistoren tower.
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