Topic: Unusual Amber Glass Jugs

[Penelope12]

I wonder if anybody has any idea what these jugs were used for. I bought them a while back in a job lot of items that mainly date from around the mid 19th century and believe that they are of a similar age. They are not the prettiest of items I know and are very crudely made with broken pontils and plenty of impurities. As far as jugs go they are about as much use as a chocolate fireguard, at just over 5” inches tall and only 1.75” inches wide, your milk or cream would soon finish up adorning your table cloth or worse still your lap! I did wonder if they might be something to do with the brewing industry, any thoughts would be most welcome? 

Penny.

[chopin-liszt]

They are a bit weird - and crude, aren't they?
Not one of your ordinary generic retro jugs which we still cannot identify definite makers for, (apart from some having been found with Krosno Labels on) but perhaps somebody practising making those?
Handles are not the easiest of things to apply well, and the are the last things to be done on a piece. One of these looks as if the bottom part got a bit squished when being stuck on!
I can just see them in a pub, with dried grasses in, gathering dust and cobwebs, in a deep-set window. 
I'm pretty clueless, really.