Antique Book Shaped Slide Whistle with Surprise Heart and Scale, Working Beautifully finely carved great looking enough just to

great looking enough just to hang on the wall

I think most likely it was not actually intended as such

and quite modern feeling

Age and wear evident: some craquelure and some paint loss especially along the bottom edge from where I assume it was at one point framed as well as some scattered small chips here

Rerce in 1894

Antique Book Shaped Slide Whistle with Surprise Heart and Scale, Working Beautifully finely carved great looking enough just toTruly 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