“Glass things found at the thrift store. I thought they might be lab equipment. I am not a scientist.”
Answer: “These may be oil lamps, with missing round wicks that hang down into the teardrop-shaped oil reservoirs. There are also glass tubes with a lip on one end that the wick slides through. They keep the wick from falling all the way into the oil reservoir.”
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