Sorry if someone has already stared this…
I aquired a C whistle a few days ago but I cant figure out who the maker is, it has an emblem - thing above the finger holes which is a big heart, inside the heart is a harp thing with a lady on the front as if it were a ship, there are also the letters J H and at the bottom it says In tune C London
Not much help I’m afraid, but a quick Google turned up two similar articles in the Ashmolean Collection in Oxford. So it might be worth something!
Does it look old or new?
old, well it looks very old to an untrained eye… there is a greeny blue substance forming on it which seems to be a metal carbonate of a sort. It is ver tarnised and looks as if it has been played lots
Sounds like it is brass from that description. I have definatley seen Flute on ebay with the same emblem.
i had thought that it was nickle-plated-brass as it is silver in colour and I know that nickle carbonate is usually bluey-green, but then again i dont know much about whistles
HUMBLE SUGGESTION: DO NOT REMOVE THE PATINA UNTIL YOU DETERMINE THE AGE OF THE ITEM.
I think we’ve all seen the heartbreak on Antiques Road Show when the appraiser tells the owner of the item “Well, if you had not polished it, it would be worth a gazilion dollars. Your decision to ‘spiff it up a bit’ has reduced its value to 1/10th of that amount.”
Tom D.
yeah, that was the first thing my family said to me
Can you post a digital image of it?
This whistle probably has a lead fipple plug. (Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it’s important to know about this.)
Best wishes,
Jerry
there is a link to the ebay page here which contains a picture, i’ll try and do some myself and get one of the emblem-thingy at the top
i’m planning on talking to some people who know a little bit more about whistle than i do, maybe they can recommend a local specialist (one of them is a morris dancer so he should know of someone i could ask 
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