RARE antique MINI WHISKEY decanter / SALOON BOTTLE deep PURPLE AMETHYST color

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RARE antique MINI WHISKEY decanter / SALOON BOTTLE deep PURPLE AMETHYST color:
$49.99

2 7/8\" tall beautiful deep SUN COLORED AMETHYST (SCA) antique miniature WHISKEY DECANTER / SALOON BOTTLE.This is a very early hand Blown Into Mold bottle,dating back to the Bottle is in PRISTINE SPARKLING CLEAN condition. It has NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.

Age: An early hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late 1800\'s.

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This is a very ornate little bottle that is in the traditional old bulbous shape of fancy antique liquor bottles, but in a small sample size. It has a nice flared lip, paneled neck, and the base of the bottle has an ornate * star * pattern molded into it. There were found in the basement of an old house in Eastern Washington. The beautiful purple amethyst color of this glass is the result of the presence of manganese in the glass, a mineral that was pulverized and added to vats of liquid glass that acted as a decolorizing agent to turn the glass crystal clear. Exposure to ultraviolet rays of the sun or other sources of UV rays, triggers a chemical reaction and the manganese oxidizes and turns a wonderful amethyst color. Many of our amethyst bottles have been purpled from years of exposure to natural sunlight, others have been purpled with the use of strong UV lights in a box, and still others have been purpled by sterilizing them in an industrial food processor, a safe and permanent process which does the same thing as exposure to natural sunlight, except much faster. It is not irradiated, like the many other ‘purple’ bottles you see on that are kind of a pale, sick, washed-out purple color. This is just the richest and truest purple color that you’ve ever seen! Though some will suggest that this lavender color has been artificially produced or altered, the only thing that is artificial or altered is the time it took to turn purple. Whether a bottle has been purpled by the sun, by UV rays in a box, or by a sterilization process, they all turn the same purple color as it is all the same chemical reaction taking place. With few exceptions, only clear glass from before 1914 will turn sun-colored-amethyst. Not only does this deep purple/amethyst color make this a great looking bottle, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique, check it out!

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