Posted 8 years ago
Gibson
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Can anyone help? My dad found this glass bottle about 30 years ago while digging out our garden. It is a sealed glass bottle containing some form of liquid which has unfortunately partly evaporated over time. It has the markings M P on it, does anyone know what it is? We recon it could be something like a medicine or something of that kind. My dad took it to a antiques place in Pontefract and even they didn't know what it was. The liquid can't be tested as it's sealed glass. Hope you can help!
CindB I just hope it's not poison !!
The liquid is like water
It could be some kind of barometer?
Storm glass?
Storm glasses are hermetically sealed precisely combined chemical solution produces various crystalline formations depending upon atmospheric conditions.
If it is not what Celiene has offered, it is likely either:
a fire grenade, to be thrown at the base of a fire to help put it out (don't break it. DANGEROUS contents)
or
medical related, as many early sealed medicines came in glass that had to be broken to be accessed (until like the 1970s).
If it is the first choice Spirit offered, the main post should say " unfortunately, only partly evaporated" :-)
Thank you all for your suggestions, I have looked into the fact that it could be a fire grenade as someone on another site has also suggested this, and have found similar looking bottles. Next step is trying to date the bottle. Thank you once again
I think it might be to small for a fire grenade. But not sure.
It was a measuring instrument (the part with numbers was broken and missing). It might have been used for milk fat, wine, liqueur,wine alcohol content etc. The amount and specific gravity of the liquid inside it was precisely determined and calculated, then sealed. When immersed into the liquid to be measured, it would sink to certain depth, depending on e.g. alcohol or fat content and the result read on the scale (missing). Difficult to tell its exact purpose (what liquid was measured with it ALCOHOL-METER /OR HYDROMETER). It`s rather big, possibly used in a large industrial facility.
Me thinks a fire extinguisher glass bomb. I have some similar but larger.
@keeno55
Right, looks like that. Had no idea they existed.
http://saskmuseums.org/blog/entry/glass-grenade-style-fire-extinguisher-bombs-are-they-safe
Hey neat item, and GREAT information in that Link......wonderful link!! I have seen a few myself here, but did not know how bad the stuff was inside of them !!
So Collectors Beware....