Tiny 1/2 oz pure purple APOTHECARY bottle w/ EMBOSSED picture MORTAR & PESTLE

Description

A tiny (
3 inch tall
) rectangular shaped
beautiful DEEP PURPLE AMETHYST colored
antique
APOTHECARY - PHARMACY - DRUGGISTS'
bottle.  What is significant about this bottle is that it has a
picture of a DRUGGISTS' MORTAR & PESTLE embossed
right into the glass of this bottle.   This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top, dating back to early 1900
.
Bottle has an embossed picture of a druggist's mortar with pestle, embossed right on the front of this bottle.  The mortar has some embossing within it, but it is too small to clearly tell what it says.
Condition
:   Bottle is in good solid condition.  It has some traces of content residue that need to be washed out, otherwise it looks to be just about perfect.  It has NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.
Age
: An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. early
1900'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.
This is the the smallest 3
" tall, 1/2 oz. size bottle that was used by apothecary shops, for bottling highly concentrated products to be administered by the drop.  Many collectors prefer this tiny size as they don't take up too much room to display and they are also very desirable looking in this miniature size!   They often have a drug store name on them, along with the town and state.  The embossing on this bottle is not a pattern that we've seen before.  Also, the purple color makes it quite
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You hear about old bottles turning purple over time ... 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.   Then it was blown into a mold to create a bottle.   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 has been exposed to a high heat/light source to enrich the purple color that would naturally occur if exposed to sun light for a prolonged period of time.  A great benefit of this bottle being purple is that the purple color really accentuates the embossing!    For example, with a clear glass bottle, you see through it, and the embossing reflects what ever patterns are captured in the background.   Yet with this deep purple color, you are looking, not through the embossing but AT the embossing, which totally intensifies it and jumps out right back at you!
With few few exceptions, only clear glass from before 1914 will turn sun-colored-amethyst.   Not only does this deep purple/amethyst color make it a great looking bottle, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique
,
check it out!
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