Tiny SOZODONT FOR THE TEETH sample ANTIQUE bottle SUN color PURPLE blown glass

Description

A tiny (
just about 2 inches tall
) rectangular-shaped
nice PURPLE AMETHYST colored
antique
SAMPLE TOOTH POWDER
bottle
.    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
:   "
FOR THE TEETH AND BREATH / SOZODONT - SOZODONT
"
.
Condition
:  Bottle is in VERY GOOD condition.   There is scattered inside stain but NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.  (See photos for overall condition)
.
Age
:  An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand blown-glass bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late
1800's
.
Shipping
:
FREE
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You don't find tiny SAMPLE
antique TOOTH POWDER bottles
very often, and this one is a prime example.  In doing some research on this product we find that it was first
c
reated in 1859 by Roswell van Buskirk of N.J.  The name Sozodont isn't just an interesting sounding title but is related to early dentistry.  For example, the Greek word "sozo" means "to save" and the Greek word "dontia" means teeth.  So this title of this product meant that it was 'to save the teeth'.  However, shortly after 1900, negative reports by dentists about the product were published and the product faded from distribution.  All that remains today are just a few of these old bottles, and this one is a super nice
looking one in shape and condition, with lots of embossing and
in an extraordinary color, purple.
You hear about old glass turning purple ... 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 like this. 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.   With few exceptions, only clear glass from before 1915 have manganese in them and will turn this color.
After this,
with the start of WWI, manganese was no longer available as foreign imports decreased 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.   Generally speaking NO MORE purple glass after 1915!
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 collectors of antique dental bottles are dentists themselves, building small collections of antique dental bottles to display in their waiting rooms and offices and this is a prime example of just this sort of thing
as it says so simply mentions for the "TEETH".  Old dental bottles like this contained nothing more than a liquid or powdered tooth paste, yet they claimed that they had secret me
dicinal properties that, if used regularly, could cure any type of disease or affliction of the mouth, gums, throat, even things that they still can't cure today.  Antique tooth powder bottles are a category of collecting in themselves and t
he tiny sample bottles are a category of collecting that even cross over into this.   A
super nice
looking example in shape and condition, with lots of embossing and
in an extraordinary purple color
,
check it out!
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