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Ghost Town Glass Whatsit.

Stiffwrists

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Hunted a ghost town that died in the late 1890s. This glass piece was a surface find. What is this?
 

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Looks like a pipe for drugs

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That didn't even cross my mind. I can't imagine anyone going that far into the middle of nowhere just to smoke crack. I still think its old. I wonder what drugs people in the 1800's smoked?
 
I think that it is a vintage medicine dropper with a flattened and curved end so that every single drop of medicine could be suctioned out by tipping the bottle sideways when it got low. It looks similar to one of these.
 

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I think that it is a vintage medicine dropper with a flattened and curved end so that every single drop of medicine could be suctioned out by tipping the bottle sideways when it got low. It looks similar to one of these.

Thanks. That looks like it! I'm kind of glad its not related to illicit drugs. :lol:
 
I think the proper term for that is a "pipette", and yes, they could have been easily used way back when for administering small amount of potent drugs, like Laudanum, or Cocaine in liquid form. (Cocaine wasn't always a controlled drug.)

Roger
 
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