Any idea? Silver looks like a straight razor

[Vino]

Found this today, its marked sterling.
Any ideas.
Thanks for looking
George

 

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[JerseyDigger19]

I don't know what it is, but it's BIG SILVER. Boo-yah!!!

 

[dogteam]

Wow, nice!
THAT...is a Bosun's whistle.

 

[ARC]

Bosuns whistle.
Boatwains call/pipe.

 

[Vino]

Whats that??

 

[ARC]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boatswain's_call

 

[Vino]

Thanks guys..
Had no idea. .
Great.

 

[ARC]

Cool find btw.

I would guess that it is not that old.
Odd find.. not everyday... And I have never found one.
Would like to.

 

[Vino]

Cool find btw.

I would guess that it is not that old.
Odd find.. not everyday... And I have never found one.
Would like to.

Yep. Knew it wasn't old because it says Sterling. .
But i also found 3 KGs and my friend found a 1728 1 reale today there.

 

[ARC]

Yep. Knew it wasn't old because it says Sterling. .
But i also found 3 KGs and my friend found a 1728 1 reale today there.

Killer day then.

 

[Goldenplug]

That is awesome!

 

[kingskid1611]

Neato!

 

[Loco-Digger]

You ever watch an old navy war movie? You always hear them blowing one of these somewhere in the movie.. Nice find

 

[BosnMate]

Join the Navy, you hear it every time they pass the word on the 1MC, and every time there is a watch change. I did a little search on You Tube, but most of those videos the audio is so lousy you can't really hear the pipe. There is one for the Sea Scouts, and that's pretty good, but some of those calls he shows the high and low notes are opposite of the Navy. Here is one I found that has the Navy calls that has been posted by a retired Navy Chief.

https://sites.google.com/site/usnbosunm8/bosunm8-lanyard/downloads

 

[CaptEsteban]

This video may help you, Mate !

 

[galenrog]

The Boatswain's Call, or Boatswain's Whistle, has been around, with little change in basic design, for at least several hundred years. I have found references dating back well before 1400. 30 minutes of searching the Internet could garner you quite a bit of information, now that you know what it is.

The piece you found appears to be based on a modern design used by several navies around the world. If an official issue of the U.S. Navy, it will be marked such. Many sailors skilled in its use prefer models made of Sterling over the more common copper/nickel alloy due to the quality of the tone.

 

[BosnMate]

Having been a boatswains mate striker, I used the pipe and passed the word aboard a U.S. Navy man-o-war. These are the clearest/cleanest pipe calls I was able to find on a google search. https://archive.org/details/BoatswainsCalls

 

[Carolina Tom]

Very nice find Vino. As we say, you just never know what will come out of the ground! Congrats on the BIG silver!