Liberty bell (bronze, 1753): Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly Isaac Norris ordered a bell for the State House in 1751, from the Whitechapel Foundry in London. The bell cracked on the first test ring, and local metalworkers John Pass and John Stow melted down it and cast a new one. It's not until the 1830s that the old State House bell would begin to take on significance as a symbol of liberty.
pays: America
année: 1960
Yvert: airmail 56
