hard to find whistles

— finding rare whistles can be difficult eh ?? Yah !! That’s for suuuure.

Why ???? Because we are sometimes looking in the wrong places. Oh, I know what you are thinking…. But Noooooo.

They might be right under your noses and you have your goals, standards ( i.e. eyes ) set too high 🙂

For example:

Pretty insignificant escargot you say ?? Maybe, just depends what you have your eyes set on. What do you see when you first scan it in a pile of other whistles ??

Could be that the plating is threadbare, wearing off in flakes. BUT, no dents !!!

You might think that it is way too small for all your more manly whistles. Just a dinky little thing and you would be close to right, as far as stature. Yet is that why you are collecting whistles ?? To be manly ????? Not likely.

More likely, that you are your own person and collect for the pure joy of learning, education and it’s truly a quality hobby….

So back to the whistle. As we move on we peer at that V top. Now there is a cool top knop. Kinda revolutionary in its day — 1924 to be accurate and to agree with the patent of course.

I imagine that the real triumph is in the most insignificant thing about this whistle–the stamp. AND we aren’t stamp collectors are we ??? However it is quite noteworthy to see an EMCA ( circa 1922 ) escargot isn’t it ??

So what can we conclude ?? That we need to lower our standards, well eyes anyway and spend less, learn more and not worry about all those of ‘the best’ whistles — This one cost … ready ??? …. 8oo pennies…