Crocker Farms Auction currently has one available for what I consider to be a largea mount of money, attributed to Richard Remmey of Philadelphia ca. 1870, nicely decorated with cobalt.

http://www.crockerfarm.com/Items/phrx01.htm

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen Austin <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Saturday, March 18, 2006 9:27 am
Subject: Re: bird whistles

> Dang - my typo in post - '1830s to present'.  Haven't seen a 
> stoneware whistle though - a link to a picture woulda helped I guess.
> 
> JAMES MURPHY <[log in to unmask]> wrote:  Guilland (Early American 
> Folk Pottery, 1971), illustratesa stoneware whistle"covered with 
> greenish brown glaze made in Pennsylvania between 1820 and 1850." 
> He says, children's whistles called "blow birds" were simple to 
> operate. Height 2 1/4 inches. I've seen redware examples generaly 
> attributed to Pennsyvania. 
> 
> Greer (American Stonewares) is less specific and does not 
> illustrate any but notes that piebirds have an open base while the 
> whistles have a closed base.
> 
> Jim Murphy
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Stephen Austin 
> Date: Friday, March 17, 2006 4:24 pm
> Subject: Re: bird whistles
> 
> > Are you talking about 'pie birds' - little ceramic hollow 
> figures 
> > used to vent pies? 1930s to present, typically English and 
> > American used but made all over. BTW - they were available in 
> > other shapes/figures as well.
> > 
> > Meta Janowitz wrote: Has anyone 
> > excavated or heard about bird-shaped whistles made of stoneware,
> > please? I am trying to figure out their distributions and origins.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Meta
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Meta F. Janowitz
> > URS Corporation
> > 437 High Street
> > Burlington, N.J. 08016
> > 609-386-5444
> > 
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