Antique Book Shaped Slide Whistle with Surprise Heart and Scale, Working Beautifully Teppich and lending themselves to all

and lending themselves to all sorts of arrangements

In addition to all that is viscerally satisfying about it as a sculptural object now

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

I may be a bit partial to the moody seascape

Antique Book Shaped Slide Whistle with Surprise Heart and Scale, Working Beautifully Teppich and lending themselves to allTruly 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