Spirit Trumpets
The spirit trumpet pictured above collapses into five sections and fits into the oil cloth bag pictured next to it. The trumpet has an inscription towards the bottom reading "Anna" with a line drawing of a bell connected to the last letter. This could mean that the medium's name was Annabell, or it could have been the name of the medium's spirit guide.
The trumpet is about 30 1/2 inches high and the outside diameter is about 7 inches. The trumpet has a glow-in-the-dark ring painted on the inside of its mouth so that when it's "floating" during a seance, the sitters can see where it is. The glow-in-the-dark strip was put there to help prove that the trumpet was indeed in mid air.
Pictured below is the spirit trumpet when it's collapsed for travel. 
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