Featured What are these glass tomatoes or pumpkins?

They came to me in an oil lamp lot. I found one with a larger top opening that was being sold as an inkwell.

Any idea what they are? Thanks!

 

They appear to be Target Balls, used for shotgunning before Clay Pigeons came along.
https://glassbottlemarks.com/glass-target-balls/

 

Target balls aren't flat bottomed and are much thicker glass. I've seen them before. Thanks!

 

My first thought was pomegranate, which makes sense. I seem to recall fire grenades or something like that being called pomegranates once upon a time.

 

Yup, those are pomegranate fire grenades. Thin glass.

 

Was researching to find out what a Fire Grenade was and found a recipe for a cocktail that sounds really great. Here if you're interested: https://cocktailchallenge.wordpress.com/tag/fire-grenade/

I think I might try one or two.

 

can u then throw them at folks ?????

 

can someone show a photo of this as a fire grenade? I just don't believe that's what these were for. Being flat on the bottom, I my thought is some sort of bottle that had a cork stopper. Cordial or wine maybe

 

I'm doubting the grenade id too. I've done a lot of searching and didn't find any that looked like these.

 

that's all I can find.........& I don't think u have fire grenades .
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I don't either.

 

they look more like pumpkin globes

 

https://www.pamono.com/small-space-age-table-lamps-1970s-set-of-2

Scroll across to the photo that shows the globes without the bases. They look very similar to your globes. And since they came in a lot with other lamp related items . . .

 

I don't think that's them either......

 

They have a similar texture but the shape is wrong.

 

This has become somewhat frustrating to figure out. Well, at least I found a decent cocktail recipe to try, lol!