You won't believe that I have something I got in about 1929 or 1940, and I don't know for sure where it came from.
Here is a picture of it. It is eight inches long, made of tin, and painted yellow. It has a black wooden mouthpiece at one end. It contains a plunger attached to a red handle that protrudes from the opposite end.
If you blow into the mouthpiece, it emits a shrill whistle tone. A tune can be played by moving the plunger in and out with the handle as you blow.
There are no markings on it, but I think I got it by sending in a box top or label from some product and 10-cents to a radio program similar to the Grand Ole Opry. When you listened to the program you could play along with them.
If anyone had a whistle of this type, and remembers where it came from, I would like to hear from them. I would also like to know what it was called.
Robert is a car inspector at the Crest Yard in Fort Worth. He and his wife Gloria operate "The Colony", a bed and breakfast located in the Historic Fort Worth Stockyards.
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