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Description: | Cast tin alloy hawking whistle, cylindrical in profile and circular in section, with a knopped domed terminal beyond a raised rib that runs around the circumference of the barrel of the whistle. Beyond the rib, there is a semi-circular sounding hole, as the whistle tapers slightly towards the mouthpiece at the opposite end. The mouth-piece is convex at the top and concave on the underside to accommodate the lower lip of the player. This separate underside part is secured by solder and has a slim inlet. Within the barrel-shaped chamber of the whistle, alligned with the straight edge of the sounding hole, is a separate cast tin alloy 'baffle', inserted to fill the chamber apart from a slim outlet hole above its triangular upper edge, which was used to restrict the air flow. There are raised longitudinal seams along either side of the whistle and on the front face of the domed terminal. The knop at the apex of the domed terminal would have originally extended into a suspension loop, so it is only the base that remains.Bosomworth (1991) illustrates a similar 'pea' whistle made of Britannia metal (or britannium, a tin alloy) on page 232, No.10542, which is dated from the Victorian period.Britannia metal, or britannium, was a tin alloy of tin, antimony and copper, and was introduced by Sheffield manufacturers in the second half of the 18th century.Similar whistles have been recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database. For example, see finds: BH-A0DDB1, BUC-6F4D01, IOW-C637F7, SUR-C845C3 and SUSS-0C38E3.
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