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whistle

Whistling bottle with straight spout and flat base. Depicts pair of mating birds - chickens?; stippled area between the two. Vertical mould seams down front and back of birds, but well-smoothed; hole made in back of male's head to accommodate modelled whistle mechanism. Well-burnished. Black.

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