Pigeon Whistle

Linked Tube Pigeon Whistle (聯筒鴿哨 liantong geshao). Attached to the tail of carrier pigeon. It consists of three thin, brown, bamboo cylinders aligned side-by-side. Longest bamboo crushed. The graph 忠 is inscribed on the bottom of the largest cylinder. The whistles marked with the character 忠 are all from the Dongcheng district in Beijing (東城區 ). Pigeon whistles marked with this character have become very rare.