MINI purple COLGATE C & Co antique children's PERFUME bottle BLOWN GLASS

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$21.11 (-40%)

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  • Volume: 1/4 or 1/2 Fluid Ounce - 2 3/4 inches tall
  • Desirable Features: * Small SIZE * purple COLOR * Blown Glass
  • Era: Antique (early 1900)
  • Item Description: Tiny purple COLGATE PERFUME bottle
  • More color:: GRAPE Violet LILAC wine JAM orchid BOYSENBERRY
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Country of Manufacture: United States
  • Color: Plum PURPLE amethyst AMETHYSTINE lavender MAGENTA

    • A tiny
    2 3/4 inches tall
    deep
    PURPLE AMETHYST
    colored TALL SLENDER OVAL shaped antique
    COLGATE & CO
    perfume bottle.  Bottle is
    EM
    BOSSED
    and comes with a t
    iny cork.  It originally was fitted with a brass cap over the cork, but it has long since rusted away from this 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 early 1900
    era
    .
    Bottle embossed
    :  “
    C & Co
    ” within double circle, which stands for =
    C
    olgate
    &
    Co
    mpany
    .
    Condition
    :   Bottle is in good solid condition but it is heavily stained with etching, from a century of time.  NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc
    .
    Please see picture for overall idea of condition.
    Age
    : An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled screw-top, ca. early
    1900’s
    .
    Shipping
    :
    FREE
    domestic shipping.   We DO ship Internationally but 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.
    A great looking bottle, this is the same Colgate of the Colgate / Palmolive company today, but the 1800’s version, back when they specialized in perfume.
    This bottle was part of a miniature CHILDREN’S SET of 5 bottles, all different scents, for a young girl who was coming into womanhood
    .   It is a very attractive rich purple color …
    You
    hear about old glass turning purple in the sunlight …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.   Then it was blown into a mold to create a bottle,
    jar, or other object.   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 was passed through some concentrated UV rays. which has the
    same affect as the sun, but a lot faster.   It has not been colored,
    stained, or altered.    No matter how a bottle or jar has turned purple
    (direct sunlight or UV rays in controlled environment) they all turn the
    same purple color as it is the same chemical reaction taking place.  
    The only difference is the time it took to turn purple.  What is
    important is that a bottle or jar has to be old enough to turn purple as
    with few exceptions, only clear glass from before 1915 has manganese in
    it and will turn SCA.  Then,
    with the beginning
    of WWI, manganese was no longer available as foreign imports deceased
    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.
    In summary, 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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