No, not those bells Quasimodo, but sporran bells. My local highland-wear shopkeeper has donated two cast sporran bells to the project. Only about 15% of the old bells in his box appear to be cast. Most are constructed of sheet metal, have the detail engraved on them and have smaller holes for the chain. Most are also finished in silver but these two are in brass or 'gold'. I suspect he doesn't want to part with the silver or silver-plated ones. However, these two are typical of the cast bells in both the silver and brass finishes and represent common sizes, although a few are larger or smaller. The one on the left is 1.4 inches tall and on the right, 1.8 inches. The moulding on the smaller one appears to be much finer than the larger which is asymmetrical at the bottom (as are the bells on some of the sporrans in the MacLeay portraits: eg John Brown, Archibald Brown, Charles Duncan, Donald Gordon, Neil MacLeod and Archiebald MacDougall).


I will post tomorrow Artificer.