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Arts And Crafts Dinner Chime
Dinner chime in the "Arts and Crafts" spirit made by W F Needham and Plant & Perry in Birmingham (United Kingdom) at the end of the 19th century.
Metallophone composed of six bars and their bronze resonators, each producing a different note, the whole is suspended on a black lacquered wooden frame with a baluster base and decoration of Far Eastern inspiration.
A note on its staff engraved on each bar. Engraved on the resonators: PLANT & PERRY / PATENT No. 5320 and SOLE LICENSEE / WF NEEDHAM
William Frederick NEEDHAM's workshops were located at 69 Camden St., Branston St. works, Great Hampton St., New Hall Birmingham. R. PLANT and E. PERRY patented their bronze resonator under N ° 5320 on March 22, 1884 in the United Kingdom and in 1888 in the United Kingdom for an instrument then called "harmonicon".
Ref. Grainger Museum Collection, Melbourne, Australia, Inv. 00.0184
Metallophone composed of six bars and their bronze resonators, each producing a different note, the whole is suspended on a black lacquered wooden frame with a baluster base and decoration of Far Eastern inspiration.
A note on its staff engraved on each bar. Engraved on the resonators: PLANT & PERRY / PATENT No. 5320 and SOLE LICENSEE / WF NEEDHAM
William Frederick NEEDHAM's workshops were located at 69 Camden St., Branston St. works, Great Hampton St., New Hall Birmingham. R. PLANT and E. PERRY patented their bronze resonator under N ° 5320 on March 22, 1884 in the United Kingdom and in 1888 in the United Kingdom for an instrument then called "harmonicon".
Ref. Grainger Museum Collection, Melbourne, Australia, Inv. 00.0184
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