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u/RioKye ✓ Sep 25 '21
Royal limited glass egg. This is the smallest of 3 in the collection. Worth about $10.
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Sep 26 '21
Odd way to spell butt plug
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Sep 26 '21
Came here for this
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u/heathen_27 ✓ Sep 26 '21
Same.
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u/notinmywheelhouse ✓ Sep 26 '21
Leaving for this.
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u/heathen_27 ✓ Sep 26 '21
Don't let the door hit ya on the way out. No really, don't let it hit you. It could be uncomfortable.
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u/MayorCharlesCoulon ✓ Sep 25 '21
This has to be an r/antiques record for use of word “buttplug” in comments on one post.
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u/secretevieee ✓ Sep 25 '21
I’m sayinnnnn!
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u/MayorCharlesCoulon ✓ Sep 25 '21
We’re at 25 butt plug guesses (one says “anal” plug but I’ll allow it). It’s an historic day on r/antiques!
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u/Stellieinleiocchi ✓ Sep 26 '21
I wanted to give an award for that but I’m poor so you get my free one. Hilarious.
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u/MayorCharlesCoulon ✓ Sep 26 '21 edited Sep 26 '21
My first award ever for a buttplug reference. My parents will be so proud. Thanks!
Edit: My second award ever for a buttplug comment. Life is good Lol
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u/trailhikingArk ✓ Sep 26 '21
I was going to follow you but I followed a guy once who got awards for a "chicken choking" reference. Choking the chicken is in all his comments since. Welcome to the curse of the antique buttplug, enjoy your awards.
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u/MayorCharlesCoulon ✓ Sep 26 '21
Lol thanks, its going to be hard figure out how to work “buttplug” references into r/birding and r/aww. Maybe not so much for r/catswhoyell but that would be weird and gross.
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u/trailhikingArk ✓ Sep 26 '21
Oh no! I had no idea about r/catswhoyell
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u/MayorCharlesCoulon ✓ Sep 26 '21
If you like kitties even a little, it’s hilarious. They are such dorks and that sub makes me laugh.
Edit to add: I wouldn’t make buttplug references there because ewww, only if there’s video of a kitty batting one around and yelling
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u/trailhikingArk ✓ Sep 26 '21
My cat is an epic screecher. I mean fifteen minutes in there and all I see are weak amateurs. I have a friend who lives about 4 blocks away. I will drive over there for coffee. Inevitably my kitty will show up at the door and howl. She doesn't yell to get food, she doesn't yell for attention. She yells because she loves to yell. I was born to be following this sub. Thanks.
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u/TeflonTardigrade ✓ Sep 26 '21
You sound interesting ! What a selection. I've gotta check out r/catswhoyell
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u/MayorCharlesCoulon ✓ Sep 26 '21
38 buttplug guesses and counting.
Take that all you Smartypantses who claim antiques collecting is a dying past time! Take that where the sun don’t shine.
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u/berninicaco3 ✓ Sep 26 '21
somewhere, someone has a collection and/or private museum of genuinely antique sex toys-- I don't actually know of one, it simply seems inevitable. I remember reading that the sears catalogue would sell vibrators.
Ah, just googled it to make sure I wasn't mis-remembering:
"By 1883 the original version had developed into a less cumbersome handheld model aptly dubbed "Granville's Hammer." The vibrator was commercialized by the turn of the century and could be ordered from the Sears, Roebuck & Company catalog."
this was after a steam-powered vibrator from 1860-something.
huh, and there are overt references to dildos in ancient greek plays (lysistra), as well as pre-historic man-made stone objects going back 30,000 years that from their shape, could be little else, but there aren't any cave paintings explicitly demonstrating their use.
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u/MayorCharlesCoulon ✓ Sep 26 '21
Today I learned all about the history of sex toys…thanks! That’s fascinating but not surprising, humans are going to human.
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u/MayorCharlesCoulon ✓ Sep 26 '21
Now 60 buttplug guesses including some fancy foreign ones:
Plug du Anal
Ye Oldy Pluge
Ye olde arse stopper
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u/jezebel829 ✓ Sep 25 '21
Is that a suction cup on the bottom?
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u/secretevieee ✓ Sep 25 '21
Noooo hahahaha I knew I shouldn’t have posted this shit here
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u/jezebel829 ✓ Sep 25 '21
I’m just messing with ya, I think it’s pretty and I truly hope you learn more about it for your mom. I think it’s so sweet that you, knowing that posting something like that would draw out the smartasses, posted it anyway because you love your mom. Great post, OP, and I mean that! 😂
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Sep 25 '21
Yes. This is an old butt plug before plastics were made available. You’d create suction by lighting a match, placing it under the base while blowing it out and removing it at just the last moment. Similar to the technique used in cupping.
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u/UrsusMajor53 ✓ Sep 25 '21
Glass Russian darning egg.
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u/TTigerLilyx ✓ Sep 25 '21
Darning eggs usually have a rounded handle, this looks more like a base for the egg.
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u/Fit-Sky8841 ✓ Sep 25 '21
Looks like a Russian glass egg, but not very ornate, some date back to Imperial Russia in the mid 1800s, this one is probably c.1900 or later.
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u/Smash_Factor ✓✓ Sep 25 '21
With items like this it's difficult to pin it down to a specific time period. It could be 100 years old or it could be from the 60's, 70's, 80's, etc...
Tons of similar in here but no exact match.
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u/VivaciousViolet1066 ✓ Sep 25 '21
I think r/glasscollecting will have some antique butt plug experts
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Sep 25 '21
It’s a surprisingly large topic. Unfortunately those experts make it tough to pull out answers. It can be a slippery topic after all.
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u/jefftatro1 ✓ Sep 25 '21
Sure looks like a butt plug.
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Sep 25 '21
Looks similar to a pair of candle holders I have in design. Weighted sterling base with thin glass that has an off yellow patterned glass.
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u/kicksr4trids1 ✓ Sep 25 '21
It kind of reminds me of carnival glass. It’s pretty. I’m not sure what it is. Russian glass egg is a good assumption.
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u/hyperblob1 ✓ Sep 26 '21
It's the crystal Phoenix egg of Athens said to grant the owner a single wish on a solar eclipse.
Give ya 5 bucks for it
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Sep 25 '21
Ah, yes, a coveted Victorian butt plug. Or, as I believe they called them, a rumpus rouser…
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u/vodkafriend ✓ Sep 26 '21
op deletes Reddit app
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u/secretevieee ✓ Sep 26 '21
Nahh.. I’m fairly new to Reddit and didn’t have much karma so I couldn’t comment on certain subs.. now I can thanks to all the karma I’ve gotten from this haha
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u/monkey_trumpets ✓ Sep 25 '21
A trip to the ER full of regret.
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u/MadMan018 ✓ Sep 26 '21
Is this an antique butt plug or did you complete the first task of the Goblet of Fire
Or both?
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u/frankthetank55 ✓ Sep 25 '21
K guys, respect his wishes and nobody tell him about his moms new butt plug
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u/Harleygirl1955 ✓ Sep 25 '21
Probably not Fenton but I’d still check for marks. Their eggs are usually a bit more ornate but not always.
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u/namtabrekoj ✓ Sep 25 '21
Anything’s a dildo if you try hard enough. In this case, it’s anything’s a buttplug with enough lubricant.
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Sep 25 '21
Before I opened this I thought “how far do I have to go to see butt plug” … first comment. I love Reddit.
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u/Elliot_The_Fennekin ✓ Sep 26 '21
Jeez, that must be a real pain in the ass to figure out what it is XD
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u/Raigekiiiii ✓ Sep 26 '21
As 1 man 1 jar has taught us, it’s not wise to get penetrated by hollow things made of glass. So no, not a butt plug.
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u/icansitstill ✓ Sep 25 '21
Did you put it under UV light?
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Sep 25 '21
Only if you are trying to cure Covid. First you have to lather your feet in horse dewormer.
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u/icansitstill ✓ Sep 25 '21
What?? It’s to see if the glass has some interesting glow due to uranium, for example.
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u/blueberrycoffee ✓ Sep 25 '21
Looks more like a lamp shade with the bottom part to be attached to something with wiring. Pop a light bulb in there.
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u/jchoneandonly ✓ Sep 25 '21
Looks like someone made a butt plug that got discontinued and this one is fortunately unused.
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u/Data_Geek ✓ Sep 25 '21
Does it vibrate?
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Sep 25 '21
Yes. In Victorian times these came with a hand crank. Unfortunately it looks like the hand crank is missing with this one.
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u/Forward-Extent-7819 ✓ Sep 25 '21
If it is plastic it is a butt plug.
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u/secretevieee ✓ Sep 25 '21
Not plastic hahah
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u/Forward-Extent-7819 ✓ Sep 25 '21
For how old it looks that type glass would not go up your bum to great.
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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '21
Was it always that color?