Topic: Strange thing. What is it?

[chopin-liszt]

Hiya, I found this a while ago and it mystifies me. I've not a clue what it could be.

Strange thing:-

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/chopin-liszt/wave/thing1.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/chopin-liszt/wave/thing2.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/chopin-liszt/wave/thing3.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/chopin-liszt/wave/thing4.jpg

and with light coming through the thinner bit, to show the colour of the glass
- and the only bit any light has the tiniest chance of getting through
- and the pic makes it look a lot brighter than it actually is....

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/chopin-liszt/wave/thing5.jpg

 
so although there's a bit for an electric flex to come out, it can't
be for light, and there's no place for light to go TO, from inside (or to
be coming from, if you look at it the other way).
The number on it is actually 13, although the pic. makes it look like
12.
Outside base diameter is 3.5" exactly, top part 2.5" exactly. Very
imperial.


over to you!

[jazimmons]

Erm. Very odd and although I have no specific ideas, here are a few of my own to throw into debate.  The flex opening BASE, might perhaps actually be the TOP for a further section of glass?  The inside glass inclusions (as noted from your photos) may perhaps justify this? They may be there for stability of a much larger item of glass to be added so as to fit & turn to lock, like a cog?  :spls: Even though this item is DARK it will still offer light eventually as do fiber optics. Black glass also, no matter how dark, still emits light??? To hazzard a guess, it could be an industrial/electrical item of which any other component part or parts received the wiring and then a valve bulb, but you sure got me with the damned thing. Jazz

[keith]

I'd say your on the right track with a type of lamp,the thin piece I presume would be broken through for the flex and some sort of lamp arrangement resting on the top,seems logical to me Mr Spock,
                                                              Keith.

[chopin-liszt]

Admit it, you're both as clueless as me!  :24:

(break the thin bit indeed, Keith - it's not that thin - and to get any light through it at all, I had to hold it up directly to a very bright sun.
The camera made it look a lot brighter than it is.

There's no proper space where any flex could be coming from or going to in the "bottom", although there are those two bits which look as if they might be there to stabilise it.

Somebody has used it as a candlestick. There was wax in the "top" small cup bit, where there are those big lumpy bits which look as if they might fit something.

I had wondered if a tiny magnet might have been put under the whole thing - if a magnet is rotated near a copper coil, electrickery is generated.......

??

[glassobsessed]

Possibilities may include a measure, or some sort of stand but probably not an insulator.

Guess what, I haven't a clue either.

John

[heartofsklo]

Could it be a mould of some kind? Mould No 13 with an overflow.Possibly for soap or something similar?

[chopin-liszt]

In the smaller and deeper cup "top" part, there is a deepish (~1") hole (where folk had put candles) in the centre, and around the outside edge of the inside, there are those 6 little "platform" bits, which look as if something might sit on them... or I suppose they could fit onto or into something, if that's the bottom part - but if it is, and there's anything substantial on it, it would be quite unstable.

There is no indication that it would measure anything accurately, neither is there anything for anything to pour from. I would discount a measure, or anything vaguely lab-ish.


 :spls:

[Margi]

Morning, before reading the comments I first thought candlestick one end and the other end could be used as an ashtray??
No idea

[antiquerose123]

Glass insulator would be my guess too.  My second (silly) guess would be a Soap Dish, so the water could trickle out of it  :huh: or like the other people said....maybe a light base for some type of Globe Lighting Bulb.??

That is my wild guesses...

[Anne E.B.]

Got this 2-piece yesterday, just to show here   I'll be giving it back next week.
The shade fits perfectly, but the glass is very thin and is chipped at the bottom.  May be that's why they aren't seen together???
Anyway - may be the answer :huh: