✅ SOLVED Crotal Bell Maker?

[Clutch Cargo]

Hello Folks, searching a cellar hole today in CT. I found a complete shoe or breech buckle and this large Crotal Bell. The Crotal Bell is ornate with an "H B" on the bottom...Thinking H B might be the maker. Anybody know and if so, what time period this is?

 

[worldtalker]

NICE Buckle man.

God Bless Chris

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[Clutch Cargo]

I think this is it. William Barton started the Barton Bell company in the 1770's in East Hampton CT. The bells at that time were marked with a W B. H B is for Hiram Barton, a son of William who had the company in the early to mid 1800's.
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