RIVERSIDE : USA - MO

*Location:

   Red-X General Store 
   2401 NW Platte Road (off Mo.Hwy.9) 
   Riverside, Missouri, USA

*Remarks:

   A collection of tower bells and other bells
   by various American and European makers.

*Photos:

Note: All bells shown are bronze unless otherwise stated; all photos ©2001 Carl Scott Zimmerman.

Display in front lobby (click photo for enlarged view - 84KB):
Red-X General Store front lobby
photo of Ed. H. Young (d.1999), founder of Red-X
bell by McShane, Baltimore, MD, date not recorded (detail of trademark - 187KB)

Tower bells in east lobby (click photo for enlarged view - 393KB):
Red-X General Store east lobby
Right to left:

  1. anonymous American, undated (iron)
  2. The C.S.Bell Co., Hillsboro, OH, undated (iron)
  3. anonymous Oriental, undated
  4. The McShane Bell Foundry Co., Baltimore, MD, 1889 (detail - 464KB)
  5. Buckeye Bell Foundry (G.W.Coffin), Cincinnati, Ohio, 1846 (detail - 475KB)
  6. (See #7 below)

Tower bells in east lobby (click photo for enlarged view - 405KB):
Red-X General Store east lobby
Left to right:

  1. Buckeye Bell Foundry (Vanduzen & Tift), Cincinnati, OH, 1880?
  2. The Clinton H. Meneely Bell Co., Troy, New York, 1889 (detail - 391KB)
  3. The Chaplin-Fulton Mfg. Co., Pittsburgh, PA, 1904 (detail - 372KB)
  4. anonymous European?, undated (detail - 349KB)
  5. The Chaplin-Fulton Mfg. Co., Pittsburgh, PA, 1893
  6. Buckeye Bell Foundry (Vanduzen & Tift), Cincinnati, OH, 1880
  7. Stuckstede & Bro., Saint Louis, MO, 1911
  8. (See #5 above)
  9. (See #4 above)
  10. (See #3 above)
  11. (See #2 above)
  12. (See #1 above)

Selected bells within the building:


  1. Clinton H. Meneely Bell Company, Troy, NY, 1882 (enlarged - 136KB)

  2. Naylor, Vickers & Co. (E.Riepe's Patent), Sheffield, England, 1860 (steel) (enlarged - 106KB)

  3. C.S.Bell & Co., Hillsboro, OH, undated (iron) (enlarged - 176KB)

  4. The Jones Troy Bell Foundry Co., Troy, NY, 1885 (enlarged - 107KB)

  5. Witte Hardware Co., St.Louis, MO, undated (iron) (enlarged - 98KB)
    (In the background are portions of the collection of small bells.)

  6. Favrio Vero d Altasar, Lison (Lisbon, Portugal), 1772 (enlarged - 101KB)
    (detail of inscription - 89KB; (detail of decoration - 76KB)

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