Just a few things I found while looking through a box of stuff. Just wondering what they are, how old they are (if possible). Thanks.
http://i46.tinypic.com/242spj8.jpg - A porcelain egg?
Two looks at the same thing:
Mortar and pestle? Does the longer object have a rough surface for grinding?
The porcelain egg might have been used as a darning egg. Back when people actually darned socks, you’d put a darning egg or mushroom into the sock so that you wouldn’t darn too tightly. Such eggs were also used as decorations.
Either I need new glasses or those pictures are badly out of focus.
Can we get a shot of the ends of the first one? It looks like a candlestick or possibly a vase.
Darning eggs have a handle, makes them infinitely easier to handle. They did use plain white clay/porcelain/whatever material eggs to fool chickens into not laying more eggs.
My camera doesn’t do well with close up (within 12 inches) shots.
The last one looks like a cosmetics jar - maybe something in which cold cream was sold. Does it have any markings on the base?
Hold it further away. A smaller, sharp image is more useful than a big, fuzzy one.
Not necessarily. My mom has a bunch that don’t. They wouldn’t have been used with chickens, since they were goose-egg sized or larger.
And the first and third objects might be a mortar and pestle.
It’s a “milk glass” sex toy.
They don’t always have a handle, the one my grandfather brought back from Tinian during World War II didn’t. Funny they’re selling eggs to fool the chickens into NOT laying, the hatchery catalogs I receive sell fake eggs to let the chicken know where they’re supposed to lay, solving the problem of laying in odd places in the yard instead of their nestbox.
My maternal grandmother’s darning egg didn’t have a handle, though I’m sure it would have been easier to use if it had had a handle.
That’s a ruler from Pfluke Aquarium, Rochester New York. It was probably used at the time for measuring things or showing the relative size of objects in photos. 
My initial thought at seeing the first picture is “that’s for your hat pins.”
But it’s just a guess, based on what ancient ladies in my life had on their dressing tables for hat pins.
I did think darning egg as well.
