antique whistle research

wow, what a week of recovery from the whistle booth at the antique show. Lots of talk about rare, old, antique whistles.
Then back to work 🙁 — you know, the 9-5 type …
But it is just a hobby right ?? Back to the real world.
In the mean time there is always whistle research. It is now the 13th and polishing a special SPOTLIGHT for posting on the 20th in just one week. Been working on this one for 5-10 years.
How does an article come together for a SPOTLIGHT you may ask ?? Good question !!
First one has to get the whistles, that usually takes many yeeeeeears.
Then, like the average collector, we can’t afford to travel that much, so we depend on the internet for clippings, articles, postings and other collectors research, not to say CATALOGs. This may take yeeeeears to collect too.
Then further, there are comparison whistles to find, catalog and take pictures of them all. Cut crop and clean lint off of….Oh, and all the files to organize.
Lastly the article outline, developing articles and more picture taking, picking and placements.
LAST, lastly proof read.
Wow, what’s more several articles have to be going at the same time as information rolls in, is unearthed or other details are revealed and updated.
All in all, takes two to four years or MORE to put together…

And you thought that they were just thrown on the web 🙂

So when you send money and whistles to us it makes it all worth it ??? — In all of our dreams !!!!! Ha !!!!

On the other hand reading the articles and then pushing that ‘like’ button on Facebook IS kinda rewarding….One can hope….