Any Ideas On What This Is?

Mornin' folks!

When you consider it's actual size, I vote 4 hole bud vase. I measured a lipstick...although they come/came in different sizes, I think it's a bit small. It seems out of proportion for 4 toothbrushes? Again, too small?

 

My guess is a test tube rack/holder used when you need to put your experiments in a fridge or heater.

 

I tend to agree with Bdigger.
I am sure I remember seeing glass like this in the Dr's. and dentist's offices of the 1950s and "60s.
Might have been around far earlier, but I'm not that old! LOL

 

Hi Greg -
Funny, I have always sold these as spoon holders.
Doing a search, I find them listed as candy containers, creamers, pipe racks and spooners. Some say LE Smith.

I checked my Smith book and the author does surmise these to be creamers, possibly a give away with Post Cereal.

I've misplaced by MHW2 - seems to me she had it in the unknowns as a spoon holder and that is probably why I've always thought that. But then I could be remembering wrong too.

If someone has their book available, maybe they would be kind enough to check.

Always happy to be corrected. Thanks.

 

I think the lead contenders are toothbrush holder or possibly a bud vase as Sue suggested (and I think you're right about it being too small for lipsticks, Sue).

I am just surprised that I am not finding anything online - I have tried a multitude of search terms.

 

Wait. Footlong hotdog holder? That has to be it! LOL.

 

I vote a lab thingy of some type like for test tubes, but WDIK.

 

That is a good guess, and it can be easily checked out because test tubes come in standard sizes. I think I have seen that kind of glass in the windows of doctor's offices.

 

I was just thinking, a glass test tube rack might be a very bad idea. First you have the glass sticking to glass phenomenon -which anyone who has washed enough dishes is likely to run into, and the expansion/contraction of glass in fridge or w/ heated contents; ; and the likelihood of glass breaking glass. If this is a test tube holder it might be a first and last.

Small bud vases (yes, you cut the stem down to 3"), placecard holders, centerpiece frogs, ect. were all the rage in the 1920s and 1930s when the middle class could finally afford some of the luxuries, like an extravagantly complete set of china (even if it was free depression glass you got at the movie house), that had only been enjoyed by the wealthy a few decades before. As a place setting, or with one or two of these at the ends of a table the flower arrangements wouldn't be to tall for conversation.

 

My very first thought was some kind of battery case?

 

oops

 

If that is a bud vase, then . . .

 

tee, hee.
I am just hoping she puts it up for sale, because I would use it for a bud vase in a New York Minute.

 

I was thinking the same thing - glass on glass, not a good idea. I did look up test tube holders/racks just to be sure, and they all consist of what you'd expect, wires or boards with holes in them.

And though it's been a hundred years since I was in college, just eyeing these up, I can tell that test tubes just wouldn't quite fit in them.

 

Interesting you say that johnny, because I came across some battery holders that kind of look similar, but not with the 4-hole configuration, so IDK....it's another possibility.

 

Messi, you're too funny!

I might try posting it on that facebook page that figtree posted.

I can't believe we've come up with so many possibilities here! And I don't want to discount any of the ideas given, I'm just the kind of person that wants to see a similar example before I list it. LOL.

 

I would want confirmation as well!
And if those saying it is bud vase turnout to be correct, then I will eat a pint of Hagen Daz in penance. LOLOL

 

The one that shiloh posted is even busier!

 

Okay, I posted to the first group. I haven't joined the 2nd group yet, but I'll go check it out now.

 

Well, no one there had any different ideas than have been tossed around here (except someone mentioned a candle form), so in the next couple of days I'll probably toss it up in an auction with a crazy title like...

Ribbed Glass Toothbrush/Makeup Brush/Lipstick Holder/Flower Frog/Bud Vase

And if there's room, maybe I'll add in Test Tube Holder/Candle Form just to cover all the bases.