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Description: | A cast lead alloy (pewter?) whistle in the form of a pipe bowl, dating from 1750 -1900.The bowl is sub-conical with a pattern of raised dots on the lower half of the bowl. A raised line in a scallop pattern defines the lower half of the bowl, and above the line is a single row of raised dots and then plain metal to the rim. The pipe stem is missing although there is a cylindrical projection with a terminal rim projecting from the base of bowl where the stem would have fitted. Complete examples are know to have had a separate sheet metal stem which fitted onto the socket formed by the cylindrical projection. There appears to be orange corrosion in the base of the bowl.A very similar but more complete example is NCL-754936. Compare also NMGW-D888C6, SWYOR-81CE24 and SWYOR-9662A2. Until recently, these pipes were thought to be for smoking, but an article by David Higgins in The Society for Clay Pipe Research, number 76 (Autumn / Winter 2009) has identified complete curated examples which have a lid, and which were used as whistles. They were probably children's toys and may have been made in Germany.
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