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Bottle digging turns up unknowns

Kapok

Kapok

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We were bottle digging at the base of an old barn that had been demolished and found about 7 or 8 of these little items. At first I thought they were creamers but the bottoms are round like a light bulb. Some have a sort of magnifying glass effect on the bottoms, and others are just plain glass. Any ideas?
 
They almost look like the glass that healers put a quick flame to and place on your back to remove 'toxins'.
Pretty cool.
 
I guess it makes sense that it would be a part from a tractor since we were digging behind an old barn.
 
Flinthunter might be right but I don't remember a bulb shaped sediment bowl. Do a Google images for "cupping" and see what you think. I think BillF is on the right track.
 
Yeah, Larry, actually me too on the BillF input...I dont ever remember seeing fuel sediment bowls in that shape..they were generally deeper and without such a nice rolled lip? Those little glass 'poison puller outers' are exactly shaped like what you found...maybe they had some use on a farm for livestock? I dont know, maybe a traveling snake oil and apothecary salesman dumped his wares there for some reason? The old 'Traveling salesman and the Farmers Daughter' joke origination? Sure makes a guy wonder what they were all doing there..:shrug:.
Mud
 
Not sure about the cupping thing, Larry. I Googled it and those glass bowls do look similar, but not really it, I don't think. I added a better closeup, which or may not help.

Mudpuppy, I also searched for the poison extractor thing but didn't find anything likely.

I love a good mystery!
 
How old of a site is this??
Mid to late 1800's??
They could be Christmas lights.
They would put a candle in them and hang them with a wire bale in the tree and around the house.
Can you say house fire??
 
HuntinDog, that's an interesting idea. The barn was supposedly built around 1870. Here's a picture of one of the large beams from the barn with the wood pegs used to join the beams, which I thought was pretty cool. The pegs were about 8" long.
 
Ok, here's a picture of a few 19th century cups for cupping. Does the one in the front look familiar?
 
Wow, it sure looks it! I thought cupping was a relatively new thing to the US, like yoga or aromatherapy. Would the cups need to have holes in them to create the suction? Mine don't have any. Thanks for the research. Very cool.
 
No, no holes. Just jars. As the air inside cools down, it sucks the skin inside the jar supposedly drawing out the toxins.
 
Kapok said:
Wow, it sure looks it! I thought cupping was a relatively new thing to the US, like yoga or aromatherapy. Would the cups need to have holes in them to create the suction? Mine don't have any. Thanks for the research. Very cool.
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Nah, Americans were at least as gullible in the 19th century as they are now . . . that era was probably the hey-day of quack medicine, eventually prompting the creation of the FDA to reign in the worst of it. Back then any Tom, Dick or Harry could open a "hospital" or "sanitarium" as they were oft called and administer "treatments" ranging from completely useless to downright dangerous and charge exorbitant fees for them. Some of it evolved into familiar modern products . . . John Harvey Kellogg and C.W. Post (ref. Road to Wellville) gave us the boxed cereal industry and "Patent Medicines" (usually a sketchy witches brew of toxic ingredients dissolved in high-proof alcohol to keep the customers coming back) evolved into the modern soft drink industry. :surprised: Think of this the next time you're sipping a rum and Coke. :rofl:

-pete
 
Yea! And now we have flashing LEDs to fix knee and muscle pain.
 
Explorer said:
Yea! And now we have flashing LEDs to fix knee and muscle pain.
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Let's not forget magnets and copper! :rofl:

-pete
 
Motor parts have a draw but antique cupping jars are a medical oddity from an age when most things did not work or harmed the patient. I suspect a few of them would be collectable as a set since they often cupped at several places much like acupuncture.

Nice find!

HH
 
Also fuel pump sediment bowls. Some older cars I used to work on still had them. In addition, there were ( and still are ) places you'll find these at the end of air lines in shops that collect moisture to avoid damage to air tools although now more modern filters are replacing them.
 
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