Dinner chimes made in the Arts and Crafts" by W.F. Needham and Plant & Perry
in Birmingham (United Kingdom) at the end of the 19th century.
Metallophone composed of six bars and their bronze resonators, each producing
a different note, the whole is suspended on a black lacquered wooden frame with
a baluster base and decoration of Far Eastern inspiration.
A note on its staff engraved on each bar.
And engraved on the resonators: PLANT & PERRY / PATENT N ° 5320
and SOLE LICENSEE / W.F. NEEDHAM
William Frederick NEEDHAM's workshops were located at 69 Camden St.,
Branston St. works, Great Hampton St., New Hall Birmingham.
R. PLANT and E. PERRY patented their bronze resonator under N ° 5320 on
March 22, 1884in the United Kingdom and in 1888 in the USA for an instrument
then called "harmonicon".
Ref. Grainger Museum Collection, Melbourne, Australia, Inv. 00.0184
