Small Silver/Glass Container... What is this?

I forgot to put in a size reference, it's the size of a typical shot glass... may be just that. It's 34mm tall. Weighs 68g with the glass.

 

Interesting, that must be it. I wonder why it's often blue glass? Also just found out it's called a "salt pot". It's also for mustard as well, I guess mustard and silver don't mix either. (often a remedy to clean silver coins though I don't recommend it.)

 

Made in Birmingham, date letter looks like 1911, maker T. H. Hazlewood.
Halfway down this page:
http://www.925-1000.com/dlBirmingham6.html#M

 

I agree. A salt pot.

 

the poor little thing needs a good polish !

 

Mmm. Very nice.

 

I've always called them salt cellars. But yes, for holding salt.

 

You're right to, that's the proper name for them.

 

I get bloody confused when people call them 'salts'. To me they're salt-cellars and nothing else. Salt is what you put into them.

 

Salts:

 

Trade, auction houses and antique guides use both terms for both the open salt 'dishes' and the closed salt dispensers. So salt and salt cellar are both correct. Here is an example of a site that uses both terms for both items:
http://www.worksunlimited.com/saltspoons.htm
Complicated, I know, but this is even more complicated, Cellini's famous salt cellar:

 

You've been to Oz, have you seen Flinders Street station? Ok, more demure, and not for sale, but still...

 

I agree....They are called Salts.

 

Don't be so sure about that, Davy. The last monstrosity I saw in an op shop was a solid silver goblet for $300.00. Not that I bought it, but still...

 

Never underestimate the op shops of Victoria!