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Hi Sue, thank you and your dad very much :-). I contacted the Scottish Pottery Society, as they they have photos of some on a page relating to a talk about Port Dundas Pottery on their website. They say the most likely explanation is that they were used in an industrial distillation process,
Best wishes
Fiona

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This is an email sent via the SHCG List. If you reply to this message, your message will be sent to all the people on the list, not just the author of this message. ------------------------------- My father is a retired electrical engineer with an interest in historical electrical stuff, so I tested the insulator theory with him to help rule it in or out. Here’s his reply:

I have never seen anything like it; it does not chime with me as an electrical item because I cannot see how it would be used.

However, many weird things were made at the end of the 19th century (the beginning of the electrical era) so you never know but I doubt it.

Is there a SHIC category for ‘weird things’?

Sue 

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Museum, Gallery and Heritage Interpretation
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On 27 Mar 2020, at 11:28, Graham Key <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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Not 100%, but just wondered if it could be an electrical or signalling insulator of some kind ? Ceramic insulators are normally porcelain.


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Hi

 

Any idea what this is? It is made of ceramic, stamped ‘Glasgow’, and has a hollow channel from the end of the stem to the bowl.

 

One of our local council museums in Northern Ireland posted this a few days ago on their Facebook page as a mystery object. They had been sent the picture by a museum in Scotland. Both would love to know what it is!

 

Best wishes

Fiona

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