Victorian Cardboard whistle , Diecut mechanical bird whistle Penny Toy.
by RAPHAEL TUCK & Sons Ltd. printed in Germany.whistle museum.


Tuck was a famous maker  of Paper penny toys in the 1890's, located in London,
this one was printed for him in Germany.
             

Chic & Rabit squeaking, whistling novelty postcard. D.R.G.M . Germany 1930's.

German Novelty squeaking, whistling postcard were made up  to the 1960s.



The above is what I call Chameleon Paper tongue action whistle, many time refered to as a noise maker, It is a reed tin whistle with a paper tongue that is rolled and folds and when you blow it the paper tonggue opens like a Chameleon's tongue when it hunts.
Ussually these types which were popular for many years and still made as party toys are ovelooked by most collectors.
The above  is the front and the back  of  a 1920's German made sample, .rare.






This Paper Mache Moon face is a penny toy with wood mouthpiece hosting a brass reed toy whistle, Noise maker, the thread is pulled to get it's mouth open, I had seen very few variations, it is a very delicate toy and a wonder how they survived thru all these years.c. 1900 -1910's Germany.




Japan late 1930's                                                                                                         France, Advertising Menier Choclat.




Candy container. wood card board and Paper mache. ;






erman Paper Mache 4 by 8 inch. 1920's 30's.








apanese bird bellow operated, paper accordion squeaking 1940s.

Chirping penny toy bird with a with friction whistling mechanism made of wood, aluminum, thread and paper, a tricky toy made of 4 different materialsof the 1920s. Germany. very rare.



wood paper and tin Advertisng  premium for shoes it does have a bellow accordion whistle.when one waves it back and forth it makes a whistle sound.


Squeaking novelty postcards, USA1950's.




Sgt. Preston T.V. Show adv. (1955) on a heavy paper whistle that is made in a simmilar way
to Gilbert's novelty package, USA patent # 1,860,710 of 1931 .



The accordion type mechanism of the next animals cardboard squeakers, noise-makers, whistles




Occupied Japan bellow, paper accordion cardboard whistle  series, This is the lion Duck & elephant, but there are at least ten more different animals in the series. there is also a pre-war japan series of this type.


CARDBOARD WHISTLES  are wide theme within it self collected by very few but it certainly mirrors well   some aspects daily life in America between 1910 to 1940's.

At 1909 Frank G. Fawkes of Chicago patented a COMBINATION ADVERTISING NOVELTY AND TOY Pat. # 918,835 which was applied for a year earlier .
This one is one of his early whistles, Made by F.G. Fawkes & Co.  Chicago.
It opens like a book as most card board whistles
I will devote a long chapter or few to these soon. 3 Pictures of the same whistle  'cover' and inside . The actual whistle is made of a small paper strip that serves as a reed and with little practice one can get a large variety of notes and sounds.





Later ISIDOK HEIDENREICH  registered the "Advertising Novelty"  Patent of 1917  # 1, 235, 799 .
 see other entries for card board whistles.

The'Tut Tut' tin toy car   with a paper whistle
 is a wind up car, probably the most well known toy made by E.P. Lehmann founded in 1881 in Brandenburg,  Germany.
Pat. USA May 12 , 1903 , His toys  are brightly coloured and made of thin Tin. The whistle is located underneath the car and is actually a paper bellow,  paper accordion  whistle operated mechanically.



First patented in Germany it was also registered as patent in The U.S.A. , England, and france.
















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