LARGE purple PANELED antique Dr Franklin MILES MEDICAL ASSOCIATION bottle SCARCE

Description

A
7 3/4 inch tall
oval-shaped
DEEP
PURPLE AMETHYST colored
antique bottle with large oval sunken panel on front
.  This is an infamous
Dr MILES
bottle, one of the Quack Medicine Kings of the nineteenth century.   It is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) bottle with a tooled top, dating back to the 1800's
.
Bottle embossed
:  "
THE DR. FRANKLIN MILES / ASSOCIATION.
"   Then down the middle of the panel is has the numbers "
-1-
" through "
-6-
", and it is embossed "
DAYS
" above them all.
Condition
:   Bottle is in GOOD CLEAN condition.   It has some traces of white patchy content stain and some outside wear, including a scuff and impact mark on the left front left shoulder which is in full view in 3 of the pictures.  Otherwise it is in great overall condition.  See picture for accurate assessment 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,
includes
insurance.   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 an
unusual looking DR. MILES bottle
in this oval shape with large oval indented front panel?!   It must of been a week long treatment and every day a portion was consumed down to the next line, until it was gone which would of been '7 DAYS'.   An all around attractive bottle, crowned by the grape-purple color.   You hear about old glass turning purple ... this purple color is
the result of having 'manganese' (a mineral) in the glass.   The manganese was mined, then pulverized into a fine dry powder, then stirred into vats of molten hot liquid glass.   It acted as a decolorizing agent, to clarify the natural aqua-marine colored glass into a clear, colorless glass.   Then the liquid glass was blown into a vessel.    Whether it was realized or not, once the finished vessel was exposed to the u
ltraviolet rays of the sun (or other sources) a chemical reaction takes place over time and the manganese oxidizes and turns this wonderful purple amethyst color.   With few exceptions, only clear glass from before 1914 will turn sun-colored-amethyst.
Here is a great looking example of this.  Not only does this color complement this bottle, but it also authenticates it as a
true
antique,
check it out
!
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!
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