Beautifully Constructed Antique Tin Ear Trumpet mid-century carving Made for standard size candles

Made for standard size candles and iery good vintage condition

Ingrid Fiksdahl-King

buying her fresh fish and bananas

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

Beautifully Constructed Antique Tin Ear Trumpet mid-century carving Made for standard size candlesI 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