Part 2


I also brought some bigger items back that had been on the Family Farm in Illinois.

One was the Dinner/Emergency Bell that used to hang from a 15 tower in the back yard. The bell came from a steam locomotive build in 1880 that had been scrapped around 1920. It was pretty tarnished when I got it and needed a carriage built to make it ring but I think it came out pretty good.


Bell 1 by M Patterson, on Flickr


And it has a very nice (and loud) sound to it........just ask my youngest Grandson Austin.


Z Austin Bell Cropped by M Patterson, on Flickr


For a desk I moved in and am using the roll top desk my Grandfather (maternal side) used for his barber supply company in the 1930s-40s.



desk by M Patterson, on Flickr



.