A GSW by J Dixon & Sons
                      
Concaved top loop, 
                                                                 
Length: 87.77 mm
Body Dia, app. 16.7mm
                                    
                                        
Top Loop is 9.4 mm wide at top
                                         
A mouthpiece with narrow opening 4 mm .

General Servise Whistle By J.Dixon & Sons of Sheffield, England, German Silver c. 1880s. It is a master piece and a great example of the superb craftmanship of this maker.

Features;
Lenght 87.77mm,
Tube Dia. app 17mm .
Weighs 51.1 grams. (ex. heavy)
loop is ex wide at the top, 9. 4 mm. and the
Mouthpiece is very solid & heavy with an unusual small opening of 4 mm (The smallest known on GSW's)
Partition; made of brass.
Diaphragm has two Diamond shape teeth extentions of partition going thru disk.
(Reminiscent of Bent & Parker & some Ward's whistles but larger and parallel to partition).

The other side is stamped with their famous bugle and banner logo.
It is indeed a splendid whistle of outstanding quality with superior constuction & sound.
This is the first general service whistle by J Dixon and Sons,
discovered by me in 2006 ,Two samples are known to exist. (The color is silver not as in picture)
A year later anotherr showed up.

                      The other sample has the Dixon & Sons and The bugle and banner logo stamped on the same side, meaning that the stamp was made of two different punches
 

Detailed information about J Dixon & Sons in an article I wrote,  can be seen here http://whistlemuseum.com/2009/02/10/dixon--sons-at-the-sheffield-city-museum.aspx.



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