no idea on this glass

[Mr Tuff]

found at my1900 site i call the hole. the big glass is light purple and maybe part of a lantern? it is shaped funny on the smaller end. 1st thought it was a glass with the bottom broke off. nope. other piece not sure old dropper or something? any help on id

 

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[Bigcypresshunter]

The purple glass is called Manganese glass.

 

[72cheyenne]

I think the first item may be part of a glass battery rest. The one end sure looks like it is broke off smooth. http://www.nia.org/general/g_battery.htm

 

[Mr Tuff]

I think the first item may be part of a glass battery rest. The one end sure looks like it is broke off smooth. http://www.nia.org/general/g_battery.htm

not broken looks that way just how it is formed

 

[72cheyenne]

The big glass looks to thick to be a lantern or light globe. Glass at that thickness I am gonna say was used as insulation for something. Electrical, automotive, lightning arrestor, lightning rod insulator, wall tube bushing, etc.? Manganese was used in glass as a decolorizing agent between 1880-1914. It is the manganese that turns purple when exposed to the sun.

 

[oldsledz]

For the top one other than one end it looks like it could some type of sediment bulb.

It the other one a tube for a syringe?

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Does the top pic have any sharp edges?

Is the smaller glass piece open on both sides?

 

[Mr Tuff]

Does the top pic have any sharp edges?

Is the smaller glass piece open on both sides? no sharp edges, and yes it is open.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Are there any visible seams on either piece?

Im looking in my glass book and have found several examples of the type of lip on the Manganese but cannot find one with that cut off bottom. Could it have been professionaly cut and the sharp edge sanded?

 

[Mr Tuff]

Are there any visible seams on either piece?

nope no seams on them

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Are there any visible seams on either piece?

nope no seams on them

With the purple glass and no seam would date it late 1800's but you already knew that.

 

[72cheyenne]

I'm thinking that the long tube may be a piece from an old barometer. http://www.orgonelab.org/cart/yweather.htm Scroll about half way down, picture on the right.

 

[Monty]

The glass tube looks like what the dentist use to use to deaden my teeth. Monty