✅ SOLVED Maybe old lipstick container?

[glostikwilly]

I found this in my parents front yard, and I have a hunch that it's lipstick, but I'm not quite sure. Can someone help with this? Thanks!

 

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[vpnavy]

Just for the heck of it - show it to your Mom and see if she knows what it is glostikwilly!

 

[MoJoe]

CAUTION!!! This may be a shotgun shell! Does it have a bottom like this? There were shells made that were all Brass. The powder in this thing may be unstable if it has not been fired! Be careful!

 

[CurlysGold]

Can you take and post pictures of the end caps?

 

[Subterranean]

Based on the Art-Deco design near the bottom of the tube, I believe you are right on with your identification of this being a lipstick tube. Happy Hunting, Sub

 

[mustangpalmer1911]

Its not any kind of firearm ammunition. And even if it was ammunition is not a thermo nuclear bomb waiting for someone to look at it cross eyed to take out half a city block like so many on here seem to think it is.

The etching on the side is pretty interesting looking forward to what you find out about it.

 

[MoJoe]

Its not any kind of firearm ammunition. And even if it was ammunition is not a thermo nuclear bomb waiting for someone to look at it cross eyed to take out half a city block like so many on here seem to think it is.

Maybe you could explain that to my Grandfather who lost a finger and a half when one of these shells went off in his hand,

 

[MoJoe]

Have you tried to pull the top off?

 

[glostikwilly]

No, i havent tried to pull the top, i found a similar but smaller one once nd i crumbled it trying to open it. I think i have made a discoverty, around the top, written very small, it says COTY, NEW YORK. Which i believe if i remember right, beauty products from the early 1900's. I cant get a pic of the writing bc its so old and i had to get my magnifier to see it.
Thanks everyone.

 

[nailbender1]

I found the bottom half of one yesterday,took a bit to figure what it was with a sleave in a shaft,inside was metal,outside was maby brass

 

[aWaredetector]

Look similar to this ? What I found us a tube if hair color from the late 60's early 70's

 

[glostikwilly]

I found one like that too, a lot smaller than the one in the picture, alot more decorative too. I noticed that it opened and i squeezed it to hardd and it crumbled. On the inside was what appeared to be SUPER old almost a powdery lipstick. It too was a sleeve in a shaft. Ill reply later when i get home with a pic of the pieces i still have. That one looked way cooler than the one i posted here, way better shape too. Shame i broke it lol

 

[glostikwilly]

Look similar to this ? What I found us a tube if hair color from the late 60's early 70's
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Around the circular part at the top or bottom it may have some writing, can you make anything out? That does look similar. Lol its crazy the difference in hair color packaging or beauty products in general from what we use now to what we used then.

 

[glostikwilly]

View attachment 796642View attachment 796643Have you tried to pull the top off?

This one was a really nice find! Good job MoJoe

 

[aWaredetector]

Around the circular part at the top or bottom it may have some writing, can you make anything out? That does look similar. Lol its crazy the difference in hair color packaging or beauty products in general from what we use now to what we used then.

Mine says "Nestlé Color Touch" Negro

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Maybe you could explain that to my Grandfather who lost a finger and a half when one of these shells went off in his hand,

Can you explain how a shotgun shell went off in his hand?

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Coty Lipstick solved

I cant post the link it has a virus but notice the matching design

 

[pippinwhitepaws]

Maybe you could explain that to my Grandfather who lost a finger and a half when one of these shells went off in his hand,

everyone I have ever known to have lost fingers to ammo/firecrackers...did it to themselves.

 

[glostikwilly]

Coty Lipstick solved

I cant post the link it has a virus but notice the matching design

Awesome, I can't believe you found the exact one, thank you!

 

[MoJoe]

It was an all brass shell just like the ones I posted, the only theory anyone could come up with was that the sun was shinning on it from a window above the work bench and heated the shell. Grand Pa picked it up (but he said he did not remember it being hot) and as he sat on a shelf above the bench it went off in his hand. There was nothing on the shelf he hit it on, he said he was just standing it up there and the thing went off like a pipe bomb.