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1866 whatzit-- Paperweight? magnifier? ID = Cover for medallion paperweight
Ivo:
--- Quote from: "Frank" ---What is this one http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7311672995
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it is what dentists sterilise their drill bits in.
ian.macky:
--- Quote from: "Frank" ---I presume the description 'refrigerator' is wrong, the feet look like battery rests that I have so is it a big one?
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Very good-- it is indeed battery-related. It's a battery tray; it would have been filled with sand, and a glass battery jar sat in it. I have an early one where the embossing was right in the middle of the bottom where, um, you can't see it once the jar is in place. The old embossing is blotted out and it's on the rim now. The early one also had ground feet, an extra production step they omitted in later models. I haven't made a gallery of my other battery glass yet, in particular the battery legs are very interesting. Did you say you have some battery rests? The UK type are fairly different than the US type. Did you say you have some battery rests? Have any pictures?
--- Quote from: "Frank" ---Can find no references on the net?
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Presumably you tried and failed? The answer is no. There are great swaths of information that are not available online, huge libraries of paper yet to be digitized.
--- Quote from: "Ivo" ---it is what dentists sterilise their drill bits in
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There's another speciality for you: medical glass, or even more specifically, dental glass. Has everyone seen the Biddle tray? It's an unusual piece of Fry glass, a rectangular piece in their opal glass with depressions for tools. I've been looking for one for years. Soon after I started looking, one appeared on eBay, so I figured they weren't that tough and I'd watch it go by and see what it fetched. Turns out to have been a fluke, there's not been another one since, just the one (it sold for $300).
--ian
Frank:
They will be off to eBay soonish.
From left to right:
1x Unipart - U10 x1 - 1 1 1/16" diameter, green/aqua - Chipped along half of outer edge and centre button which might just be a mould snap. Base is corrugated.
Bottoms
2x B10 1 1/4" diameter - 1 pale green, 1 clear
2x B20 1 5/8" diameter - 2 different mouldings, 1 pale green/aqua 1 very pale
Tops
4x T20 1 7/8" diameter - 4 (3 identical one marginally different) pale green aqua
2x T30 2 7/16" diameter - 2 pale green
Will I get $300 for them? :lol:
ian.macky:
--- Quote from: "Frank" ---Will I get $300 for them?
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Possibly! There are a few people who collect battery rests, tho mostly they stick with US ones. You've got one there I don't have, the unipart in aqua (I just have clear). The U and B and T codes I just made up myself, so noone will know what they mean unless you point them to my site. Will you be listing them in the Insulators category?
--ian
Frank:
I should think so, the listing does include a link to your site.
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