When 25 years ago, April 16, 1991. On the Stock Exchange in Warsaw took place the first session, the conditions in its then headquarters were provisional. The stock market had not yet even his most important attribute – the bell used to announce the beginning and end of the session.
For the first time the bell rang on the Warsaw Stock Exchange a few months later, during its official opening on July 2. A gift from the stock exchanges of Paris passed its CEO Jean-François Théodore, and French Prime Minister Pierre Bérégovoy. Brass bell Stock Exchange served for almost ten years. – Just before leaving the old headquarters Board found that the bell fell silent – says Wieslaw Rozłucki, then president of the Stock Exchange. – I ran to see what had happened. Bell looked normal, I could not see any scratches, only just lost sound. It was decided that as quickly as possible, a secret purchase a new bell and hang it in the same place and in the same way. – The idea was that investors did not receive this fact as a bad omen – explains the former president of the Stock Exchange.
A few years later, the bell hung in the the new headquarters of Exchange street Principe. His function was fulfilled until April 12 this year, which is the 25th anniversary of the signing of the memorandum Exchange. That day, the WSE Trading Floor bell sounded new, and its unveiling did the President of Poland Andrzej Duda. – Attaching the bell symbolizes the place where the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Its form is a graph of trading. As you can see, despite the slight decline, then it upwards – said during the ceremony the President of the Management Board of the Warsaw Stock Exchange, Małgorzata Zaleska.
The cast bronze bell stock exchange is the gift of representatives of Poland’s oldest bell foundry. It was made at the Laboratory Ludwisarskiej Janusz and Maciej Felczyńskich especially for the 25th anniversary of the Warsaw Stock Exchange. This is a classic example of handicrafts and craftsmanship traditions hołdującego bell foundry.
– Everything we did to make this cast was made, we did manually. There is no question of supporting up any mechanical devices. The form of a bell is formed in several stages. Exactly as it was done centuries ago. We adhere to this tradition – said Maciej Felczyński, co-owner of the Foundry Bells.
Cast bell takes about 10 seconds. Heated to over 10,000 degrees Celsius melt is poured into molds and then allowed to cool day. After removal from the mold bell is polished, hand-chiselled and partially painted. While the decorations were made known in ancient lost wax casting
– The material of the form are mostly clay, loess, the same as in the manufacture of bricks. However, the most important is the chemical composition of the alloy, wherein the bronze is ludwisarski, comprising from about 78 percent. copper and 22 percent. tin. We make sure that these proportions in the alloy were preserved – said Maciej Felczyński.
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