My First Crotal Bell

[Indiana Digger]

Hi Everyone,

I took advantage of another unusually warm day and went back to the spot that produced the 1896 IH that I recently found.

I was pleasantly surprised to hit not one, but two bells...10 feet apart.



Beautiful Crotal Bell - decorated bottom hemisphere - marked No 3 on bottom - missing suspension loop - looks to have been silver plated? Can anyone date this?




This bell is 1 1/4 inched long...copper/white metal...and I swear, it has a blue glass "jingle" inside it. Am I seeing things?
These are my first real bell finds...any information would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks gang....you're the best!

~Indiana Digger~

 

[pepperj]

Nice looking bells, congrat's on your first ones.

 

[fistfulladirt]

Love those bells!

 

[teleman 2525]

i,ve found two so far 1800,s i belive but may be wrong

 

[NWHunter61]

Crotal bells...some peeps call them rumble bells. They are no longer classifed as bells though...the "experts" consider them rattles. Not sure why someone would want to become a bell expert ...but to each his own. They are only noted for having iron balls for the rattle...but from peice to peice I suppose that doesn't mean someone didn't actually put a glass ball in one...if it is truly glass though I am sure that would catch the fancy of any REAL bell collector...I wouldn't just GIVE it away Congrats on a great day!

 

[KRAZYHORSES]

nice find ID!! bells are not that common in usa a lot of swinging i got lucky this year found 6 a record for 35+ years of hunting dont know if these links will help http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,365173.0.html and http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,352012.0.html there are some links in them bells are fun to dig because they dont come along every day nice hunt scott

 

[Mr Tuff]

nice bell!!!! MR TUFF

 

[TommNJ]

Congrats on the bells, always a nice surprise when they pop out of the ground !!

TommNJ

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

I like em, not found a good one (not damaged) yet.
Her is a good site for dating them.

http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/pages/bell-images/Fig.16-(UKDFD-891).jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/pages/crotal-bells.html&usg=__B8wjLFRGWBerr71pyZd5x6Z6big=&h=246&w=200&sz=6&hl=en&start=5&zoom=1&itbs=1&tbnid=evhFBfdU5jYvnM:&tbnh=110&tbnw=89&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcrotal%2Bbell%26hl%3Den%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1

 

[Goes4ever]

nice job, I have found quite a lot of crotals during my fall field hunts and I am surprised the top broke off, that is the thickest part. Does it still ring ok?

 

[taylorpatron]

!

Hi, im new to this but i found a bell that ide like more info on if possible so if anyone could help it'd be appreciated.

 

[taylorpatron]

multiple face/markings.

 

[CASPER-2]

Congrats on your first - i always like finding them - dont know why - probably for 2 reasons - if you get one - there is is probably some other good old stuff near by and 2nd reason is - if you are getting these it means you might be in a virgin spot cause they go off so nice - who would have missed them

 

[Giant056]

Great score on the crotal bell my brother magaged to get a really nice one last week, it's been quite a while since I've found one.

 

[cntrydncr1]

Nice bell!! I SOOO want to find one! congrats

 

[hamiddetecting]

Nice!