Here you go folks, don’t let this one get away.
Its a Genu-wine VINTAGE Sweetone pennywhistle!!! Only ten bucks to start.
Lessee… vintage? That’d make it… what… SIX (6) years old???
Rust means vintage? I’m going to leave my Sweetone outside and sell it for $20 in a couple of months!
Vintage… off what vine?
…Sour grapes. I’m betting that Chuck doesn’t have a tastefully oxidized Sweetone to sell to us at a collector’s premium. 
It’s one of those ways in which one has to know the ebay jargon. Vintage seems to mean a recent example of something that’s been around for awhile. If it really is old they’ll call it antique.
Hm. If I knew it was authentic, geniune, AND vintage, I might bite.
Dale
Don’t bite Dale. Nanohedron is only partly right. I may not currently have a such a vintage Sweetone, but for eight bucks I’ll be glad to vintage one of the mundane ones that I do have. Heck, for only nine bucks, I’ll vintage the blue Sweetone C that got sat on and has a sort of wrinkle partway down the tube. Then you’d have a vintage instrument with character
If you stick a copper or brass whistle in a manure pile for a few months it will be authentic antique vintage with patina. 
…and have character too.
Say what you want but no wonder some whistles stink.
How could you. 
I know someone who named her daughter “Patina.” No, really. Wonder how much she’d go for on ebay?
It isn’t just eBay. The geniuses in marketing at Fender Musical Instruments came up with a clever idea a few years ago. Basically, what they do is take a “re-issue” guitar (re-issue guitars are another silly idea, but that’s another story) then they have the “custom shop” turn it into a “relic.” They let some of the metal parts corrode, beat, gouge, and fade the body, apply cigarette burns to the headstock, etc. Then they sell this “Fender Relic” for $2500 instead of the $900 the basic reissue guitar would sell for (and even that’s an inflated price, IMHO).
P.T. Barnum was right, I guess… 
John
A practice during the “antiquing” craze in the U.S. (not only do I remember it, I even aided and abetted my mom on a project or two…good thing I was a minor and exempt from prosecution) was to take a length of chain and do the obvious thing with it.
eyes the unused Moon cittern in the corner
Depends. Was she a funky gold Patina?
Groooaaan. Hee hee.
Same principle as “antique blue jeans”, I guess…