✅ SOLVED Glass Horn with Reservoir???

[Vdubguy]

**SOLVED**

Hello All,

I found this while digging bottles in my backyard. The Home and property date back to the mid 1800's.

It appears to be a Horn with a reservoir, maybe. It is made of glass.

Does anyone know what this thing is and what it was used for. I can't find anything online about it since I don't really know what to call it.

Thanks,

Vdubguy

 

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[nhbenz]

Possibly a breast pump (really!)

 

[Vdubguy]

I believe you're correct.

Now that I google "old glass breast pump" there are many pictures of similar glass fixtures.

Thanks for that, I would have never thought of that.

 

[BosnMate]

Possibly a breast pump (really!)

Agree. Not that I'm an expert, but it looks logical.

 

[BosnMate]

Here is a breast pump off Google Images, and it says from the 1800's.

 

[bradyboy]

is the ball flexible?
if not, makes no sense as a breast pump
thinking its a quackery device
why is the ball darker than the rest of the glass
guessing the ball was heated?
very cool item
IMO
Brady

 

[A2coins]

Thanks for keeping us abreast of your finds

 

[Icewing]

is the ball flexible?
if not, makes no sense as a breast pump
thinking its a quackery device
why is the ball darker than the rest of the glass
guessing the ball was heated?
very cool item
IMO
Brady

It's not a meth pipe, calm down. The glass bulb was where the breastmilk collected between squeezes of the (missing) rubber squeeze pump.

 

[Vdubguy]

The ball on mine is not flexible, it is glass and part of the "Horn". The pumping bladder would have been on the narrow end of what I found. Probably long rotted away.

The ball is dirty because I can't get a pipe cleaner in there to get the dirt out. I'll figure out some way to clean it up.

Just found this photo of one that looks similar to the one I found.

 

[Icewing]

http://from.ph/319770

 

[cw0909]

cool find, these........
2007/57/2 Manual breast pumps (5), plastic / rubber / synthetic rubber, makers and places unknown, [1970-1990] - Powerhouse Museum Collection

look a lot like Joseph Hoover breast pump, minus the bulb attachment
https://www.google.com/patents/US60...a=X&ei=W1hlUtSyLeL_4APnjYHYDA&ved=0CD8Q6AEwAQ
lg img of Joseph Hoover breast pump
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/US603564-0.png

The first pumps were patented in the mid-19th century, typically as medical devices
used to treat inverted nipples and to help infants who were too small or too weak to nurse.

A Brief History of Breast Pumps - The Atlantic

 

[tamrock]

Neat. Finding bottles and boobie pumps. I read a story in one of those old Lost Treasure mags about a bottle digging who told of his techniques of finding and digging old privies. He once dug up a genuine carved ivory dildo in one. Always interesting to see and hear about what a bottle digger comes up with. I myself have had only one good success in a bottle site. It was in a buried wash at an old ghost town called Turret. My metal detector signaled the old tin cans and under all the sand was a perfectly preserved bottle dump. Found many undamaged examples of later 19th C. bottles out of that. Good score and an interesting piece of history.