What Is This?

[sodetraveler]

I dug this up this last weekend and can't figure out what it is

It's hand blown in a mold with a ground lip - nothing strange about that. The weird thing is that it is also open on the bottom side with another ground "lip"!

I'm not even sure I can call this a bottle because it's open on both ends. What is it?

The second picture includes a standard Carter's cone ink for size referrence. This thing is quite small and is made from milk glass with quite a few bubbles in it. Please let me know if you have any ideas on what it is, where it's from or how old it is. Thanks!

 

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[BrokenShards]

I dug this up this last weekend and can't figure out what it is

It's hand blown in a mold with a ground lip - nothing strange about that. The weird thing is that it is also open on the bottom side with another ground "lip"!

I'm not even sure I can call this a bottle because it's open on both ends. What is it?

The second picture includes a standard Carter's cone ink for size referrence. This thing is quite small and is made from milk glass with quite a few bubbles in it. Please let me know if you have any ideas on what it is, where it's from or how old it is. Thanks!

If its open on both sides, maybe an oil lamp cover?

 

[sodetraveler]

If its open on both sides, maybe an oil lamp cover?

I was thinking something along those lines, but it's so small

Maybe some kind of candle cover - although even a small candle flame would be burning up the sides pretty good!

 

[PikesPeakCharlie]

 

[gleaner1]

Some sort of lamp part?

 

[jgas]

Privy finger lamp globe Not sure. jgas

 

[sodetraveler]

Privy finger lamp globe Not sure. jgas

Privy-Finger-Lamp-Globe?!??

Now those are four words that I'd never have thought to see strung together

It sounds like a great guess to me - asuming there is such a thing

No worries though, I'm finding real bottles "On the Edge" now and so this little mystery item has been pushed back behind my new Waldorf whiskey flask and a really cool local chemist/pharmacy bottle I just dug up

Should be able to post pictures of it on Monday......

 

[Harry Pristis]

I think that 'lamp part' may be a good guess -- a decorative spacer. If it's a spacer, the inside diameter of the openings might be the same.

 

[sodetraveler]

I think that 'lamp part' may be a good guess -- a decorative spacer. If it's a spacer, the inside diameter of the openings might be the same.

That would be too easy!

The "bottom" opening is quite a bit larger than the top opening (see pictures). Of course, not knowing what it is, I'm assuming the wide part is the bottom

The wider (bottom?) opening has a lip of sorts that could be used to secure it somehow to a larger assembly. It's kind of like the top edge of a crown top lip. The smaller opening is not so easily defined - or explained