Lola & Wayne Higby's book,"Bryce, Higbee and J.B. Higbee" (Marietta Ohio: Antique Publications, 1998) makes mention of this piece among 'novelties made by these 2 glass companies prior to 1919(?). The colored photo page 99 shows 2 varieties, - plain type in clear & saffire blue glass, and a variant with "striker" bars on base. Page 102 is the captions for the pictured items, these 3 being called "Gatling Gun", 3" high, 1-3/4" diameter. [Though any history buff will recognize the shape is more like a Civil War era mortar than a Gatling Gun (which rolls on two wheels).] Full description (p.181) gets even murkier: "GATLING GUN TOOTHPICK, Bryce, Higbee & Co. ca.1885...Minnie Watson Kamm's Eighth book ...noted that in a 1893 Butler Brothers catalog, this same piece called "Krupp Gun" sold for 5c..." "The toothpick is fairly rare, but more abundant in clear than in amber or blue. Also called the "Trench Mortar", some have been found with fine ribs on the base for striking matches, and others have been found with smooth bases...In his book '1000 Toothpick Holders', William Heacock reported that this toothpick has been reproduced...". Most all glassware got its names (and what it was described as being) from the marketing department, so gatling gun or mortar, toothpick or matchstick, take your pick. Also, I don't take most of what is written in these privately-printed collectors books as gospel. [Yours does NOT seem to have the striker bar illustrated in the book.] If in fact yours really has the blue/grey cast I detect in your picture, I would tend to think repro; clear glass from pot-furnaces of the 1880-90s would go to manganese purple if overcooked, not blue/green/grey. - GlassBobB