A LATE 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH ARTS AND CRAFTS WROUGHT IRON, BRASS AND COPPER GLOCKENSPIEL by Plant & Perry of Birmingham, circa 1890, formed of six resonators of descending size with brass keys atop, suspended from a wrought iron scrolling frame with copper rosettes, the metal work in the manner of William Arthur Smith Benson, one key stamped 'Plant & Perry Patent No. 5320 Sole Licensee W. F. Needham, this dates this patent at 22nd March 1884, 84cm high, 64cm wide, 39cm deep

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PLANT & E. PERRY. RESONATOR FOR HARMONIGONS - Be it known that we, Richmond Plant, of Nelson Street South, mechanician, and Edmund Perry, of Icknield Port Road, hardware dealer, both of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, England, have invented an Appliance for Augmenting the Sound of the Notes of a Harmonicon or of a Gong, (for which we have obtained a patent in Great Britain, No. 5320, bearing date March 22, 1884; and we do hereby sounds, the same being applicable to musical purposes in part, and also to bells or gongs and other analogous purposes.