small like a shot glass

[bontalik]

Hello everybody. Hope Christmas was very enjoyable...
I have had these small glass things..like shot glasses any ideas?
I found four, in the same hole, all different but similar if you know what i mean.
three are packed away but the one i have with me has the writing rd no 590879 on it
I dont think they are old ..im just interested... Thanks Mark

 

[diggerjeff]

could be the tops to old percolator type coffee makers. if that is a patent number it would have been patented in 1897. how old were the holes you dug them from?

 

[akpi]

Hey there. I have seen some very similar small creamer pitchers. But.....maybe it is a top to an old perculator. Happy New Year!

Kevin

 

[IRISH]

They are one of the many variations of Pecks paste, some may have been from other companys though. They mostly date from around the 1930's, you tend to find a lot of them in the tips that have them, some turn purple in the sunlight.
I think the paste was meat paste but could have been any one of a number of revolting things they ate back then [] .

 

[bontalik]

The holes or trenches were about one meter deep in sandy soil at Hawthorn melbourne vic. All bottles that i have found are from Excavations.....I one found a badly damaged tea like set two meters deep in St kilda. HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY []