Posted 11 years ago
chaindrive
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I found these in a box of old medical tools. They are glass and metal, 1 3/4" long and about 11/16" wide. They screw apart and have cork in the metal part. The only guesses I have so far are they may have been used for medicine doses to be taken when away from home, or for perfume.
Nitro pills maybe? Or cocaine
Stillwater you are too funny.
I think medicine is a good guess
Depending on age could have contained smelling salts and carried in purse when women often fainted from tight under garments to make their waists appear very tiny . :-) Just a guess I have seen them in more elaborate containers but were common to carry as well as today in some medical bags
Manikin, they look Mid/Mod though? The only thing I can see a hippie putting in those is acid or cocaine. Very weird huh?
I agree Stillwater look more mod they are not Victorian era . Odd not sure if they are medical supplies or tiny bullets:-) I have never seen anything like it and have been in medicine for quite sometime . If they are truly medical containers they would only hold a small drug amount and it would have been a liquid with cork like they have . I lived through hippie years never took acid put wasn't it on paper . No these would have held legal meds IF they are medical . Beats me :-)
Yeah I know, I was just kiddin'. Were nitroglycerin pills used back then do you think?
I don't think it would have been liquid, the cork is just a pliable surface to get a seal formed, and liquid would have been absorbed into it.
Stillwater I thought of Nitro pills because they have to be kept in dark glass as light destroys them . Yes they used them for as long as I can remember and still do they used to come in small brown bottles . I never saw these bottles but the cork confuses me as it seems to go with a liquid but Nitro was one of my first thoughts