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Description: | 18th-19th Century. Lead-tin or pewter alloy, cast, probable hunting whistle. Length 47.5mm, Width 18.7mm, Thickness 13.8mm, Diameter 18.7mm, Weight 22.8mm. Virtually complete, fair sized whistle - used for sounding a warning, attracting attention or signalling, especially hawking although this one has the unusual moulded decoration of a fox or hunting hound design at the terminal. Otherwise plain at the mouthpiece end other than the 'D' shaped sound hole and two transverse bands. The suspension loop is broken and unusually under the moulded head rather than in the usual position at the terminal end. There is some light, surface corrosion, otherwise an attractive dark grey shiny patina. Ref. Detector Finds, Gordon Bailey, Greenlight Publishing 1992, page 58-59 No.7 and History Beneath Our Feet, Brian Read, Anglia Publishing Ipswich 1995, page 210-211 No. 1465.
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