Whistle.
Collection object
2000.0185
L. 8.2 L. body 4.7 L. mouthpiece 1.5 D. ring 1.6 D. body 1.6 D. min mouthpiece 1.1 D. mouthpiece rim 1.5 L. strap (doubled)22.7 Wt. 40g
Whistle, police, chrome-plated brass, made by A De Courcy & Co, Birmingham, 1916, with leather strap. Cylindrical body fitting into a waisted mouthpiece at one end and an endpiece with ring at the other. Central longtitudinal dividing plate and a rectangular slot cut from the body off-centre towards the mouthpiece. Seam along one side of the body. The ring, a D-sectioned bar with the ends set parallel together forming a tang which fits into the endpiece, is on the same plane as the dividing plate. Engraved on one side, from the top: A. De Courcy & Co / Frankfort St / Birmingham / 1916. The strap is made from a strip of leather 7mm wide, the edges sewn together for most of its length forming a cylinder, a plain ring buckle with a leather and a metal strap retainer at one end, the other with seven perforation. The sewing has come undone opposite the buckle where the ring sat when the whistle was worn.