Miniature LIGHT HOUSE shaped PURPLE antique PERFUME BOTTLE fancy 8 side OCTAGON

Description

A tiny
2 1/4" tall
beautiful
DEEP PURPLE
colored
FANCY figural
LIGHT HOUSE
shaped antique perfume bottle.  It is
an OCTAGANOL or 8 sided
shaped
bottle that gives it an ornate look.   This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top, dating it all the way back to the 1800's
.
Condition
:   Bottle is in good solid condition.  It has traces of age-wear and scattered stain (patina) but NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.   (See photos for idea of bottle's overall condition).
Age
: An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late
1800's
.
Shipping
:
FREE
domestic shipping.   We DO ship Internationally but we do NOT insure International orders unless buyer specifically requests this and we are able to provide an insurance estimate.  If an international shipping charge is much more than the actual shipping cost, we will refund the excess so what YOU pay for shipping/insurance is very close to, if not exactly, the ACTUAL shipping costs! This is important for foreign buyers to know as most of our foreign shipping charges are estimates.  We do not falsify information on the Customs Form, such as a price other than what the actual purchase price is, so please do not request us to do so. We ship several times a week and your prompt payment will hasten the turn-around time.
What a GREAT LOOKING little antique PERFUME BOTTLE!   There was not any one particular brand of perfume that came in these little bottles but it was a fancy bottle, a standard to the perfume trade.  Usually drug stores or small vanity companies used these little bottles to put their own perfume in, with their own paper labels on them.  For example, a druggist would purchase a large bulk bottle of perfume from a wholesaler, then fill several of these little bottles with the perfume, corking them, and fixing a printed label to the bottle with the name of the perfume on it along with the name of the drug store that sold it.  Good choice, as they are just great looking little bottles in this 'light house' shape!  Then too, there is the beautiful PURE PURPLE color of this bottle.  About the
pure purple color ... this purple color is the result of having manganese in the glass.  Manganese is a mineral, a rock, that was mined, crushed, and pulverized into a powder, then added to vats of molten liquid glass, and acted as a decolorizing agent to turn the natural aqua-tinted glass into a pure crystal clear colorless glass.   But when exposed to the ultraviolet rays of the sun or other sources of UV rays, it triggers a chemical reaction and the manganese oxidizes and turns a wonderful amethyst color.  Though some may suggest that this lavender color has been artificially produced or altered if it was purpled by any other source than natural sunlight, the only thing that may be altered is the time it took to turn purple.   We had a friend of ours accelerate the sun color purple process by running this bottle through an industrial food sterilizer which has the same affect as the sun, but a lot faster.   It doesn't really matter whether a bottle has turned purple by the sun or UV rays in a controlled environment, they all turn the same purple color as it is all the same chemical reaction taking place.  But that most important factor to make this even possible, is the age of the bottle as, with few exceptions, only clear glass from before 1914 has manganese in it and will turn sun-colored-amethyst.   So a bottle has to be old enough, blown with manganese in the glass, in order to turn purple.
Not only does this deep purple/amethyst color make this a great looking antique perfume bottle, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique,
check it out!
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