Plaque stolen from Bell Memorial
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Brantford police are asking for the public’s help in recovering a 101-year-old bronze plaque stolen from the Bell Memorial.
Police said they were notified about the theft Wednesday by Brantford municipal employees.
The plaque, dated 1917, recognizes the work of Canadian sculptor Walter S. Allward, who designed the monument to telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 519-756-0113 or Crime Stoppers at 519-750-8477 or 1-800-222-TIPS.
“We are saddened by an act of vandalism and theft that took place overnight at the city’s cherished Bell Memorial,” said Maria Visocchi, Brantford’s director of communications and community engagement,
In 1908, the Bell Telephone Memorial Association commissioned a bronze and granite sculpture to celebrate the invention of the telephone in Brantford. Known as the Bell Memorial, the final design was awarded by international competition to Allward. The Bell Memorial was a precursor to Allward’s Vimy Memorial and is seen as the finest example of Allward’s early work.
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