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Antique Cast Iron Grinder

  Lot # 012
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Very Good
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10" x 12" x 12"
Location
Living Room
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Lot # 012
System ID # 4376288
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Antique C & Bell Company Cast Iron Grinder Model 1 1/2. This has sold on past auction for $225.00.

Charles Singleton Bell was a native of Cumberland, Maryland who apprenticed to the founder’s trade in Pittsburgh, Pa. at the age of 15. After mastering the details of the trade, he went into the foundry business in 1858 in Hillsboro Ohio. He purchased the Speedwell Foundry on West Beech, being operated by Bitler and Clayton. He started work with one boy and a weekly expense of $7. In addition to stoves, they began to making plow points and other castings. After only a few years, a second foundry and showroom was built. The Bell Foundry began producing bells by the thousands. They were made for all classes of ships in the U.S. Navy, for the British Navy with “H.M.S.” on them and also for the Russian Navy. Dignitaries of the allied navies arrived in Hillsboro to visit the largest bell foundry in the world. The factory was sold in 1969.