✅ SOLVED Glass thingy

[Alan Payne]

All was wondering if anyone could tell me what this glass thingy is.

 

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[ARC]

Inkwell ?

 

[ARC]

Is it hollow ? or solid ?

 

[ARC]

Solid... its a knob.

If hollow I would lean more toward inkwell.

 

[Beshires1]

Looks like a Glass door knob. Does it have a square hole going into it?

 

[rich f]

it could be used for reading

 

[Itsmine]

If it's threaded in the center, it could be part of an old insulator too...

 

[Tpmetal]

Either a knob, inkwell, or perfume bottle?

 

[Plug N Play]

" A watched pot never boils "

 

[Alan Payne]

All thanks for trying to help me figure out what this is. It is not Hollow, but does have a concave depression in it that you can see from the Bottom and side pictures. It does not have a hole of any kind going through the middle of it. I also thought it might be a looking device so I tried using it to look at letters and it didn't work as that device.
Thanks again and any more suggestions?

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgur...4MKHTNZAsc4ZBAzKFkwWXoECAAQXQ&iact=mrc&uact=8 here is a link to a picture of one antique glass telephone wire insulator. Itsmine I.Ded I just did the legwork following his lead.

 

[Kray Gelder]

That's it! Nice ID Steve!

 

[sutphin]

OLD DOOR KNOB

 

[Possum]

Nice ID Steve, Glass insulator is what I thought it was when I first saw it, we find quite a few of them down here around old house sites. When you posted the link it solidified my hunch as to what it was... "D"

 

[Alan Payne]

Thank you all for hounding this out. I will have to try and figure out what time frame it was produced from. This is my first insulator I found detecting. You never know what you will find next.

Thanks again all

 

[Alan Payne]

Ok, not quite solved the Glass thingy is actually a Lightning rod insulator Patented in Aug 26 1851 by George W. Otis. The particular one I found has no embossing. Glass Lightning Rod Insulators