Month: August 2022

( Under construction)

This Historically important Jewish Police Pocket Whistle* found lately, lead to much research which sheds light on a dark period in Poland during world world II and Nazi regime in Warsaw.
I will quote and bring links for those interested in further study.

The Stamp JSŁUŻBA PORZĄDKOWA means Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst  
In Hebrew : שרות הסדר היהודי
over a Star of King David Symbol.
The Jewish Police in Ghetto Warsaw had 2500 Jewish Policemen.

In the next photo front view of the Beak engraved in Hebrew Letters; פועל – Pron. – POEL means worker,
The was a Jewish organization named Hapoel and I still had not deciphered the
its connection to its history. A matter for further research.
It may suggest the owner was a Member of the Hapoel organization, and members of ‘Hapoel’ were recruited to the Jewish Police. ) Hapoel was a Sport Organization Est. 1920 and its Warsaw Club est. 1933.

Continue reading Jewish Police, Ghetto Warsaw, WWII Ordenung Polizie,Escargot Pocket Whistle, משרוקית של ‘שרות הסדר היהודי’

• Foot note
  The whistle is missing its Metal fipple block (A slight chance it was a wooden one)
  It is clearly a Sheffield style Fipple. (My observation is that there are three types)
  You may search my Dixon & Sons whistles to see further notes as well as examples of the ‘Sheffield Fipple’ (a term I came up with to distinguish these type of Fipples).
  It said 18th Century Sportsman whistle but it could have been very early Military one
  Or a Seaman whistle Trafalgar period, or for early Napoleon’s wars.
  You can also see my observation as to this type of early Pre Drilled tops and Knots
  which I found and pointed as a distinctive feature as Georgian and earlier types of Round Pea Whistles.
  As to Maker it would be one of Sheffield’s Iron Mongers in the 18th Century,
  and at the latest one of James Dixon’s earliest works.
  Previously in the same British Collection as the Walrus Ivory one.
  
  Measures app. 2″ by 1.5″
  

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