Gilded Apostles HandBell and Plate

Gilded Apostles HandBell and Plate

Musical Instruments -- Hand bell
Musical Instruments -- Apostles Bell

Writing or engraving on the bell are the twelve Apostles around skirt, kneeling cherubs form handle, cross on top. This bell is a replica of the nine ton bell handing in the basilica of St. Peter’s cathedral, Rome, known as the most beautiful bell in the world. Handbell noted in 1846-47 Washington diary of Elizabeth L. C. Dixon, Hartford, CT published in White House History, Issue 33.

Also, with the Bell is an accompanying Plate

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Gilded brass

Height: 7 ¼”
Diameter skirt: 4 ¼”