Beautifully Constructed Antique Tin Ear Trumpet mid-century carving I love the look of

I love the look of this thing so much

assisted by a contingent of soldiers

between the silver and those stars adhered to the wide pink ribbon on either side

with pin wear to the fabric and mending to the red ribbon

Beautifully Constructed Antique Tin Ear Trumpet mid-century carving I love the look ofI didn't know quite what this was when I found it, but definitely thought it was a beautifully constructed thing, with wonderful horn like form. A bit of research (including finding a website dedicated to one person's deeply researched collection of several hundred far ranging ear trumpets) makes me confident that it is indeed an ear trumpet, tin smith made, mid to late 19th century, which would have been used as a (rather cumbersome but wonderfully