Antique SANITOL for the TEETH embossed 1800's bottle COLORFUL w/ FANCY design !

Description

A
4.5" tall
rectangular-shaped
beautiful DARK PURPLE AMETHYST color
antique
FOR THE TEETH
tooth powder bottle.  What sets this one apart from other similar bottles is that on
one side it is FULLY EMBOSSED with a vertical ribbing design
.  L
ike many of the old tooth powder bottles, they claimed that they were also to cure any aliments of the
MOUTH TEETH GUMS BREATH THROAT TOOTH
, and this one is no exception!   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.
Bottle embossed on the sides
:   "
SANITOL - FOR THE / TEETH
".
Condition
:  This bottle is in GOOD SOLID condition.  It has some haze/dullness from age but there isn't really anything SIGNIFICANTLY wrong with it.   NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.  (See photos for overall appearance)
.
Age
:  An early hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late
1800's
.
Shipping
: FREE domestic shipping.   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
.
A good old
antique TOOTH POWDER bottle
, a Sanitol Tooth Powder bottle
What sets this one apart from other similar bottles is that on one side it is FULLY EMBOSSED with a vertical ribbing design.
This is one of the fancier antique tooth powder bottles that we've seen.  The vertical rib patterns may be for gripping the bottle better or just for plain ornamental reasons, whichever, it looks really nice.  And then there is the rich, purple lavender color.
Many of the collectors of antique dental items like this, are dentists, building small collections of quality antique dental products to display in their waiting rooms and offices.   In the deep purple color, it is a very colorful example of just this sort of thing
.  You hear about old antique bottles turning purple from age?
Actually, the purple amethyst 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 bottle, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique
.
Many of the collectors of antique dental items like this, are dentists, building small collections of quality antique dental products to display in their waiting rooms and offices.   In the deep purple color, it is a very colorful example of just this sort of thing.   A
great looker in the purple color and with paneled design
,
check it out!
* * NOTE:  We have a collection of antique DENTAL, TOOTH, TEETH related bottles and items that we are selling off.  Our father was a dentist and we collected these bottles over many years' time.  Some are quite rare and others are common but top end examples.  Please check our listings as we will work at listing the whole collection.  Feel free to contact us with questions.
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thank you
!
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