Author Topic: What do you think this could have been used for ?? (Read 5319 times)

Nancy128 · « **Reply #10 on:** September 18, 2006, 07:20:16 PM »

Frank might be on the right track in thinking the use was medical, especially if it is dating back to the 17th century. Didn't "doctors" use some sort of techinque that they would put something underneath a glass to suction out the bad mojo in some ailing patient?

You wouldn't be able to tell from that medical description above, but I really do have two doctors in my family!!!! :roll:

redheat4 · « **Reply #11 on:** September 18, 2006, 07:26:32 PM »

This was made to contain ? for the sucking out of "bad mojo"

Nancy128 · « **Reply #12 on:** September 18, 2006, 07:54:23 PM »

I appologize Redheat I was trying to be funny. I was thinking it might be a Cupping glass. Something like this example.

http://www.phisick.com/a3cs4.htm

Nancy128 · « **Reply #13 on:** September 18, 2006, 07:58:17 PM »

Okay, I found it. It's a leech jar.

http://www.phisick.com/a3ljc1.htm

redheat4 · « **Reply #14 on:** September 18, 2006, 08:05:11 PM »

Nancy gets the lollypop, well done.
At first I was not sure myself what it was I thought maybe a small lacemakers lamp, but somewhere in the back of my mind I had seen a leech container in ceramic and it was a similar shape to this, and just before you posted your reply I found one on google.
Regards
Ian

redheat4 · « **Reply #15 on:** September 18, 2006, 08:06:46 PM »

by the way no need to appologize
:wink:

Frank · « **Reply #16 on:** September 18, 2006, 08:23:06 PM »

Leach jar was my first thought but it is much to well made and delicate, generally these are quite robust and basic. They had to cope with a lot of rough and tumble and were often left in place for lengthy periods.

Listening glass was another possibility, which can be easily tested. If it works then it is a possibility.

Milking glass for a lady.

It won't be a letting jar as they always had a cutter inside, you did not want air getting to the wound during the process :roll:

aa · « **Reply #17 on:** September 18, 2006, 09:19:54 PM »

Definitely for very up market leeches then. Folded foot much nicer than the ?pressed? one on Nancy's link.

aa · « **Reply #18 on:** September 18, 2006, 09:23:31 PM »

Quote from: "Anne"

At that size it would be the perfect size to store a glass eye in... if you needed to of course.

Actually before the leeches came up I wondered whether it could have been an eye-bath.

Bernard C · « **Reply #19 on:** September 18, 2006, 10:19:25 PM »

Compare Strange & Rare, Item 85, page 27. Almost identical down to the merese in the stem, then supported by four balls. Posy bowl is preferred here, with a vague date of C19/C20.

The folded and large diameter foot is an indicator of Georgian or early Victorian date with drinking glasses, but I am not sure whether this holds true for other vessels. A stemmed posy bowl would need more stability. Walsh were still making folded feet in the 1930s, on flower supports â€” I've got one in stock. See Reynolds fig. 44.

Like Frank, I'm not keen on the merese and overall quality on standard medical equipment, but better quality equipment must have been made for the classier medics.

Bernard C.