Topic: Monart mystery

[Regan]

My great grandfather was a director of the Moncrieff Glassworks and when my grandmother died I inherited a few nice pieces but I also found a glass rod in a suitcase. It's clearly from the factory as I have pieces in the blue colours and it contains the gold inclusions but I've no idea what it is. It looks hollow but the ends are sealed.

[catshome]

Is there writing on the rim, or is it scratches?

[Regan]

It's scratches.

[chopin-liszt]

Is the end polished and bevelled? (it looks like it is - with an arris - the bevel on the edge of the flat surface)
Is it the same on both ends?

If it has been finished off at both ends with polishing, it would appear to be a finished item.
What it would be for I do not know.
I thought at first it might be a cane stick, but it can't possibly be... could it?
But why polish ends?

[Regan]

Ends are flat rather than bevelled but definitely polished. One suggestion that I was given was that apparently some glass makers used to make glass rods that went above the door of a house, either for luck or to ward off evil. Not been able to find out much about this though. It's an anomaly.