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Ivory hunting whistle with stopped distal end.
This instrument was formerly in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum (previously known as the South Kensington Museum). It appears the Museum's musical instrument catalogue of 1874, where it is described as a 'hunting horn'.
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