=== saturated and sated. The whole day talking whistles !!!
I tried to tell a shopper that the safety whistles are ones you listen to and ALL the others — it’s the least thing you do with them.
His reply was that he bought books that he never intended to read. Just to collect or resell !!
guess that is it in a nutshell.
We did discount a couple of Stevens GSWs enough for a buyer to grab them both. One is an ‘improved’ CITY POLICE, not described in Collecting Police whistles. Odd huh ?? I thought so too. A smaller model than normally seen, but Stevens none the less.
2 great picks. Another couple ones that went were steel and brass combination whistles by DeCourcy circa 1915. Great patina on that old steel.
Then there was that filigree lace cuts into what looked like a Yates pewter round. Wooden pea with the hole through it. How rare is that ?? Don’t really know ?? Could be post 1900 French. The again even older….
well, more later tomorrow.
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