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<p>[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 9846562, member: 360"]The problem with whistles with rare stamps is that everybody thinks their whistle is rare, and very few of them are.</p><p><br /></p><p>I mean, if they weren't, then none of them would be rare, would they?? Rather defeats the purpose.</p><p><br /></p><p>The <b>Straits Settlements Police</b> whistle is a genuinely rare one, though, because it would only have been produced for a relatively short period of time, and only for a small, colonial police-force.</p><p><br /></p><p>But most of the others? Not so much.</p><p><br /></p><p>This has led to people putting INSANE prices on whistles which they think are super-rare or special in some way...and they're really not. We see this all the time in collector-groups on like, Facebook and such, and people will post adverts there for whistles with huge prices on them...they're usually a huge source of amusement. </p><p><br /></p><p>A really good example is WWI trench whistles.</p><p><br /></p><p>"I have a whistle from the trenches of the Somme!! I want $5000 for it!!"</p><p><br /></p><p>Buddy...buddy...there were MILLIONS of army whistles at the Somme. Officers carried them for "going over the top", NCOs carried them to organise the troops, medics and stretcher-bearers carried them to call for help ("STRETCHER!!" *chreeeep!!*), artillery-men carried them for sounding the warning for opening barrages, etc etc etc etc...they're not exactly rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>But people will believe what they want to believe.</p><p><br /></p><p>As with all antiques, knowing what's GENUINELY rare and valuable is down to experience and education.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 9846562, member: 360"]The problem with whistles with rare stamps is that everybody thinks their whistle is rare, and very few of them are. I mean, if they weren't, then none of them would be rare, would they?? Rather defeats the purpose. The [B]Straits Settlements Police[/B] whistle is a genuinely rare one, though, because it would only have been produced for a relatively short period of time, and only for a small, colonial police-force. But most of the others? Not so much. This has led to people putting INSANE prices on whistles which they think are super-rare or special in some way...and they're really not. We see this all the time in collector-groups on like, Facebook and such, and people will post adverts there for whistles with huge prices on them...they're usually a huge source of amusement. A really good example is WWI trench whistles. "I have a whistle from the trenches of the Somme!! I want $5000 for it!!" Buddy...buddy...there were MILLIONS of army whistles at the Somme. Officers carried them for "going over the top", NCOs carried them to organise the troops, medics and stretcher-bearers carried them to call for help ("STRETCHER!!" *chreeeep!!*), artillery-men carried them for sounding the warning for opening barrages, etc etc etc etc...they're not exactly rare. But people will believe what they want to believe. As with all antiques, knowing what's GENUINELY rare and valuable is down to experience and education.[/QUOTE]
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