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Courtesy of Richard Craven

Barthel's Whistle

On April 9, 1878 Albrecht Edward Barthel of Detroit, Michigan was granted U. S. Patent

Number 202,136 for his

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Combined Gun-Tool and Whistle

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. He wrote

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My invention

has for its object to combine in a single compact tool for sportmen's use, a dog-whistle,

screw-driver, socket-wrench, and shell extractor, with or without the addition of a

corkscrew, most of which will be found useful, if not essential in the field.

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He further describes the optional corkscrew with

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A corkscrew is permanently secured

to the inner end of the bulb; but if the sportsman is one of the very few who never thirst

in the field, nor become sick enough to require the carrying of a flask of tonic or

medicine, it may be omitted.

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