Monday 5 December 2022

Mystery Object

 

Another post in an occasional series. Does anyone fancy having a go at guessing what this blue glass bottle was used for. Please feel free to comment below and I'll put the answer up tomorrow. 

Arilx

Well a couple of you were spot on. Here's the official blurb about it from Calke Abbey where I saw it.




8 comments:

  1. My first thought was that it was a glass fire extinguisher but it looks like it has a metal band round the middle so I'm not too sure.

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  2. Laudanum. It’s a wild guess, based on my recollection of blue glass being used for medicine bottles.

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  3. I'm sure I'm wrong, but was it for medicine?

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  4. Looks like a perfume bottle - we would never have guessed a fire (extinguishing) bomb.

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  5. Something to do with poison due to the ribbing. x

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  6. I missed the chance but my first thought was poisonnnnnn!!!

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