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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 86506, member: 54&quot;]My guesses on Chinese items include probabilities as much as anything.&nbsp; When you have no information except what you can see and that doesn&#039;t tell you much, you can achieve some results in dating the stuff by realizing that 98% of it was imported into the US since about 1955.&nbsp; Putting it another way, there&#039;s a 98% probability that your bell was made in or after 1955.&nbsp; My dates and percentages are only guesses but I think u can see the point I&#039;m trying to make.&nbsp; And of course yet another way to put it is that there&#039;s about a 2% chance that the item predates 1955.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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