The Mystery of the Clicking Glass Tube: Identifying Those Vintage “Clicker” Toys and the Soothing Nostalgia They Bring

If you’ve found one of these mysterious little tubes, you might have found yourself asking: What on earth is this? Is it a piece of scientific equipment? A fragment of an old medicine bottle? Or something else entirely?

Those small glass tubes containing tiny ball bearings have puzzled many a curious collector. While some initially guess they are pieces continue reading …