Beautifully Constructed Antique Tin Ear Trumpet distressed "Keenly Sharply Vehement"

"Keenly Sharply Vehement"

the gray one folded in pleats

I have dreams of having a dog as big as I am

as if seeing into our souls

Both measure 5" in diameter

Beautifully Constructed Antique Tin Ear Trumpet distressed "Keenly Sharply Vehement"I didn't know quite what this was when I found it, but definitely thought it was a beautifully constructed thing, with wonderful horn like form. A bit of research (including finding a website dedicated to one person's deeply researched collection of several hundred far ranging ear trumpets) makes me confident that it is indeed an ear trumpet, tin smith made, mid to late 19th century, which would have been used as a (rather cumbersome but wonderfully