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Criterion Bell & Specialty Co., Inc., evidently still exists. It's on Second Avenue, in Brooklyn 11232. It may still manufacture, having begun to do so in 1937. I love the description of products offered. Someone who has done a street-by-street inventory of part of lower Manhattan reports this business to have a showroom in the toy district. My cellophane bag of medium-size bells has been in our possession for decades. These are the bells perhaps a bit too big for baby shoes, but just right for roller-skates and ice-skates, sewing on costumes, and going on bicycles, elastic bracelets, and pet collars. Nobody has ever owned sleigh bells has discarded them. And, of course, every concert band or orchestra that has ever played Leroy Anderson during the holiday season has a set of musical bells (plus somebody in the brass section who can produce a neighing sound).