✅ SOLVED UGO (Unidentified Glass Object)

[Elam]

Hello! Do any of you have an idea what this glass thing might be. Some have suggested it's a glass stand of some sort, but that wouldn't explain the word "Use" on the part that sticks out. I found it in some crumbling mortar from a wall that had fallen over.

It's probably something very ordinary, but I don't have any ideas.

 

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[vhs07]

Fill cap from an old glass battery? How big is it?

 

[Elam]

It is exactly an inch high from the base and if it were still a complete circle it would be around 2 inches in diameter.

 

[Bruce R]

Looks like a fragment of a lightning rod ground wire insulator.View attachment 1379564

 

[Elam]

It's hard to tell from that picture, but most of the ones I've looked at seem to have a notch on the outside rather than on the inside...? Plus, mine is much flatter than any of them and it doesn't appear to be broken off. And I'm not sure what "Use" would be referring to...

Having said all that, I found a picture showing the metal loops that go around some insulators and I know that I have found one of those loops before and threw it aside.

 

[The Viking]

I was searching online but a lot of things are not giving a good view of the tops. I am thinking maybe the top to an old chemistry set bottle or maybe an old glass medicine bottle...

 

[HuntinDog]

It's part of a fruit jar lid.

A. KLINE PATD OCT 27 1868

And here is a link to the bay for a similar one for sale
VINTAGE BOTTLE STOPPERS'' A.KLINE'' PAT D OCT,27,1863 | eBay

 

[Elam]

It's part of a fruit jar lid.

A. KLINE PATD OCT 27 1868

And here is a link to the bay for a similar one for sale
VINTAGE BOTTLE STOPPERS'' A.KLINE'' PAT D OCT,27,1863 | eBay

Yep! That's it! According to the seller, it's rare. But then, isn't everything on eBay rare, supposedly? Too bad mine isn't whole and cleaner. That old mortar has a way of corroding glass, I've noticed.

 

[Elam]

I also found a photo of a similar cap showing the kind of fruit jar it fits.