Here’s some (amateur) snapshots of them - as requested. You can plainly see the name Davey on the one with the sticker, and you can just make out the stamped DAVEY, on the top of some of the others. The last pic shows the fipple. It’s made of some greasy feeling plastic - teflon maybe?
Anyone recognise them?
Well at lest they do appear to be hand made, and in no way could you mistake them from C------s or O------s
But I still do not think its the River dance whistle 
Oh yes, definitely hand made.
Is it me or does the hole stretch on “the big one” (low D?) look very very big?
My first thought was that they looked like cylindrical Shaws.
It turns out to be a low E, and yes it’s a handfull. You can’t possibly do it with fingertips unless you use your pinky for the lowest hole.
Handmade? Hmm, not sure about that… I don’t know how they are made (for certain), but from looking at them, I can see how the head section could easily be machine made, rather than hand forged. By the looks, experience tells me they could be made either way, by hand or machine.
Loren
Cylindrical Shaws - my thoughts exactly. :roll:
J.I.
It’s possible that Dave Shaw made a few whistles like that before he settled on the conical design. However, in every reference to him I’ve seen, he’s always Dave, and not Davey.
Best wishes,
Jerry
Maybe part machine and part hand made ? One reason I thought hand made is that the name DAVEY is stamped on with individual letters. They don’t line up exactly, and look like each one was hand stamped with a single letter punch.
Another thing, the holes aren’t perfectly round on some of them. Either hand drilled, or tweaked later.
Maybe the previous owner was named Davey and he stamped his name on 'em.
Except that the big one has a well made stick-on label saying Davey, and only the ones with this construction have DAVEY on them. None of the other Generations, Clarkes, Feadogs etc in the collection had any name on them.
Maybe some kid called Davey lost interest in stamping his name on something that he was losing interest in.
Slan,
D.
Well since no-one recognises them really, my current theory is this. I think they must have been made by some small local whistle maker, maybe even someone trying to start a small business, and either they’ve given up, or else, not yet made the ‘big time’ and obviously not sold overseas. Pity, because from my amateur point of view, they are nice whistles.
I can’t think it is the name of the previous owner, as it’s only the one’s constructed identically that have the name DAVEY on them. All the various other whistles had no DAVEY name on them.
Have you tried contacting Mr. Shaw about them yet? Maybe he could shed some light on the matter.
I would normally be a little shy of emailing someone like that, just out of the blue, but if you think I should, then maybe I’ll try.
One of my students had one last year. The sticker said Davey and I think he said he bought it from a maker in Australia.
S.J.
Well that clinches it. Definitely a local maker (I am in Australia).
Mabe you should go back to wher you got them and ask where they got them. Who knows it could be that they were the makers collection.
Its not hard to spot that they are hand made, but it takes skill to make them that way, if you catch up with the maker say Goodday fer me
