Ultimate OLD quack medicine RARE PURPLE bottle GREAT Dr Kilmer's SWAMP ROOT CURE

Description

A LARGE
8 1/2" tall
rectangular-shaped
exquisite DEEP PURPLE LAVENDER AMETHYST colored
antique patent ( quack ) medicine
SWAMP - ROOT
bottle.  This is the REAL THING,
NOT a made up replica or reproduction but an original
,
TOTAL
QUACK MEDICINE SNAKE OIL
type bottle.  This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top, dating back to the late 1800's
.
Bottle embossed
: "
THE GREAT / DR. / KILMER'S / SWAMP - / ROOT / KIDNEY / LIVER & / BLADDER / CURE
".  Then on one side it is embossed, "
D
R
. KILMER & Co
"
,
and on the other side, "
BINGHAMTON, N.Y.
"
Condition
:   This bottle is in SPARKLING CLEAN condition.  It may have a spot of stain or trace of wear, though there is nothing specifically wrong with it.   It has NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.  PLEASE see pictures for overall idea of bottle's appearance.
Age
: An early hand Blown Into Mold (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) bottle with a tooled-top, ca. very
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 makes this a genuinely great bottle is the SWAMP ROOT CURE embossing, not to mention the "GREAT" Dr. Kilmer embossing.   And then too, see the sunken panel that holds the embossing?   It is shaped in the exact shape of a kidney, one of the body parts that this concoction was called on to cure.   This also puts this bottle into the category of
collecting "picture" embossed bottles, a category of bottle collecting all in itself.
Yes, just a great looking bottle, climaxed by the
deep purple color.
You will RARELY find one of these bottles in any color other than aqua, as 99.999% of them were blown in aqua glass.  Yet here is one of the very few of them that was not blown with aqua glass but is a very flattering rich purple GRAPE Violet LILAC wine JAM orchid BOYSENBERRY plum-purple AMETHYST lavender MAGENTA colored one.  You hear about old
purple or SCA (sun colored amethyst)
glass, and in general terms, here is how it works:
The 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.   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 really isn’t important 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 the same chemical reaction taking place.  But what really is important is the bottle itself, such as this one, it has to have manganese in it in the first place, to even turn this purple color.  And it has to be a true antique bottle as, with few exceptions, only glass blown before 1914 has manganese in it and will turn sun-colored-amethyst.   So a bottle has to be old enough and had to be blown with manganese in the glass, in order to turn purple.   But it's all worth it as, not only does this deep purple/amethyst color make this a great looking antique bottle, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique.
And then, last but not least, the impressive large (OVER 8 inches tall) PINT size, this bottle has
all of the right stuff to make it a great bottle
,
check it out!
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thank you
!
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