GIANT beautiful TALL PURPLE old TREE of LIFE 1780 - 1880 BLOOD PURIFIER bottle

Description

HERE IT IS a beautiful TALL (
just about 10" tall )
SLENDER oval
-shaped
pretty
PURPLE
AMETHYST
color
antique
TREE of LIFE quack PATENT MEDICINE bottle.
Bottle is a very early hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top, dating it back to the 1800's
,
well over 100 years old
.
Bottle embossed
:   "
DR. PETER'S BLOOD VITALIZER / PREPARED BY DR PETER FAHRNEY / CHICAGO, ILLS.
"
Condition
:   Bottle is in SHINY CLEAN condition.  May have some traces of haze or wear but pristine sparkling clean is what we see.  It has NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.
Please see pictures for overall appearance / condition
.
Age
:  A hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late
1800's
.
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:
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domestic shipping,
includes
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What a great bottle-
BLOOD VITALIZER
- with an equally great looking picture of the-
TREE of LIFE
-embossing in the back panel.   A bottle so spectacular that
in recent years they (Tawian) have taken this Tree of Life insignia and reproduced it onto a new miniature case gin shaped bottle that is offered for sale as a collectible.   That little reproduced bottle was patterned after this
original old bottle, for sale here.   It is almost like this antique bottle that was made back in the 1800's, was made with today's bottle collectors in mind.
It is
1)a hand blown bottle
that is
2)unique and fancy shaped
, comes in a
3)BIG 10" tall size
and has
4)nice looking inset panels
on the front and back that have
5)the TREE of LIFE picture and BLOOD PURIFIER slogan
embossed.  If that's not enough it also has
6)the dates under the tree "1788 - 1888"
embossed.   Then there is
the 7)pure PURPLE color
.  All of this adds up to a beautiful antique PATENT MEDICINE bottles.  About the
purple color, you hear about old glass turning purple?   T
he 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.   Then it was blown into a mold to create a bottle, jar, or other object.   But when exposed to the ultraviolet rays of the sun or other sources of UV rays, it triggers a chemical reaction and the manganese starts to oxidize and slowly turns a lavender or amethyst color.   The end result is what collectors refer to as SCA (Sun Colored Amethyst) glass.   The longer it is in the sun the purpler it becomes.  This bottle was passed through some concentrated UV rays. which has the same affect as the sun, but a lot faster.   It has not been colored, stained, or altered.    No matter how a bottle or jar has turned purple (direct sunlight or UV rays in controlled environment) they all turn the same purple color as it is the same chemical reaction taking place.   The only difference is the time it took to turn purple.  What is important is that a bottle or jar has to be old enough to turn purple as with few exceptions, only clear glass from before 1915 has manganese in it and will turn SCA.  Then,
with the beginning of WWI, manganese was no longer available as foreign imports deceased and domestic resources turned towards the war effort.   Selenium sulphate then replaced manganese as a glass de-colorizer and when exposed to UV rays, it turns a yellow / straw color, and a dark burnt amber color.
In summary, not only does this deep purple/amethyst color make this a great looking antique bottle, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique
.
But it's not just the color.   It is an outstanding bottle in stature and embossing.  Dr. Peter's had quite the line up of QUACK REMEDY bottles back in the 1800's.   There was his Oleum, Hoboko, Magolo, Komocko, Heil Oil, Oleolo, Gomozo, Lecivy Olej Liniment, Alpenkrauter Blutbleber, Kuriko, to name a few, I just can't remember them all.  Starting with the advent of the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906, the newly formed FDA started to write and enforce laws against such things as quack cures, or medicines that claimed or least alluded to cures and even hopes of immortality that were untrue or down right impossible.  Now, all that is left are funky old bottles like this, the ORIGINAL and REAL old 1800's elixir-of-life snake oil type blood-vitalizing medicine bottle.  Not a commonly found bottle, getting older and rarer all the time,
check it out!
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