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Subject:	Glass egg
From:	Keith Doms <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Fri, 7 Aug 2015 18:08:19 +0000
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Hello,
                We recently discovered a blown milk glass egg.   It appears to be a dummy egg that was used it encourage chickens to lay.  My informants tell me that door knobs and darning eggs were also used.  It comes from a midden that dates between 1880 and 1910.  The little research I have been able to do has not answered the following questions.  1. When did they start making blown eggs?  2. How far did the practice of artificial eggs to induce laying go back? 3.  Does anyone know of an advertisement for these things.

Keith R. Doms
Newlin Grist Mill
Site Manager
219 S. Cheyney Rd.
Glen Mills, PA  19342
(610) 459-2359
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