"Someone brought this into a friends antique shop and we’re all trying to figure out what it is and what it’s used for. The glass in it is curved inward on both sides and shuts together."
A: "That is the condenser stage from an old enlarger, for printing from large format sheet film negatives. The opposed planar-convex lenses helped to evenly spread the light from the lamphouse across the negative to be enlarged."
Anybody else have an actual answer?
it's a pill bottle. for narcotics. just like how those shops sell 'vases'
this was already the idiots edition before you stepped in, but you took it to a new level.