Antique Book Shaped Slide Whistle with Surprise Heart and Scale, Working Beautifully Teppich and certainly quite old (based

and certainly quite old (based on the hairstyle I would guess mid 18th c

I am not entirely sure what the P

represents a male fantasy of doing both simultaneously

which I found box-less (as is usually the case) but have placed in a nice old small handmade slide top box that seems a perfect fit and will keep them safe and sound

super crisp and quite stunning

Antique Book Shaped Slide Whistle with Surprise Heart and Scale, Working Beautifully Teppich and certainly quite old (basedTruly a wonderful thing. Shaped like a book, at first I thought this was an old spruce gum box always something to get excited about! but then I saw the hole (called a fipple, I've learned) at the base of spine side, and the carved knob at the top, and I realized it might be an extra beautiful slide whistle. Once I had it out of the case at the shop where I spotted it, I discovered to my great delight that the slide was carved out with a big heart