Tiny PURPLE antique LAUNDRY SIZE INDELIBLE MARKER unique ANTIQUE bottle

Description

A SMALL
2 3/4" tall
rectangular-shaped
deep SUN COLORED PURPLE AMETHYST color
antique
INDELIBLE MARKER
bottle.
This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled
top, dating back to the 1800's
.
Bottle embossed
:  "
SWINTON'S / LAUNDRY SIZE / INDELIBLE / MARKER
"
.
Condition
:   This little bottle is in good clean condition.  It has two small rough areas on the edge of lip, glass flaking, otherwise it is good, NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.   (See photos for 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.
This is one of several different small Gold Paint bottles we've come up with over the years.  I think the gold paint was used for china painting, like for painting the edges and trim on ornate patterned china.  This could become a category of bottle collecting in itself, 'Gold Paint' bottles as we've seen some really nice varieties over the years.  Then there is this beautiful
PURE PURPLE COLOR
...
this beautiful purple amethyst color is the result of  this bottle being made with manganese-glass.  Manganese is a mineral, a rock, that was mined, crushed, and pulverized into a powder, then added to vats of 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.    This bottle was run through an industrial food sterilizer, a safe and permanent process which does the same thing as exposure to natural sunlight, except much faster.  Though some may suggest that this lavender color has been artificially produced or altered, the only thing that is artificial or altered is the time it took to turn purple. Whether a glass item has turned purple by the sun, by UV rays in a box, or by a sterilization process, they all turn the same purple color as it is all the same chemical reaction taking place. With few exceptions, only clear glass from before 1914 will turn sun-colored-amethyst.   Not only does this deep purple/amethyst color make this a great looking antique bottle, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique
,
check it out!
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