I actually have two more of these glasses and didn't include pictures because I couldn't get clear images of them but now that you all have given me a medical connection I took a closer look at them, I noticed printing on one of the glasses says Livitamins Liquid Capsules and it is from S.E. Massengill Co. which turns out to be a pharmaceutical company founded in 1898. The other one is more of a beaker than a jigger shape. On the bottom it says Jas. H. Smith & C. Chicago. It was a 1872 Photographic firm and darkroom equipment is listed among the items they sold, so that would have a chemical connection. So it seems that these were not kitchen items after all. Maybe now I know enough to do some more looking to find the 2 teaspoons to a tablespoon reason.
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I actually have two more of these glasses and didn't include pictures because I couldn't get clear pictures of them but now that you all have given me a medical connection I took a closer look at the, I noticed printing on one of the glasses says Livitamins Liquid Capsules and it is from S.E. Massengill Co. which turns out to be a pharmaceutical company founded in 1898. The other one is more of a beaker than a jigger shape. On the bottom it says Jas. H. Smith & C. Chicago. It was a 1872 Photographic firm and darkroom equipment is listed among the items they sold, so that would have a chemical connection. So it seems that these were not kitchen items after all. Maybe now I know enough to do some more looking to find the 2 teaspoons to a tablespoon reason.
