Pretty purple POMPEIAN MASSAGE CREAM antique bottle w/glass stopper

A
3 1/2 inch tall
(
to top of stopper
) cylinder-shaped
nice
PURPLE
AMETHYST
color
antique
MASSAGE CREAM
bottle that comes with
GLASS STOPPER
.   The
glass stopper is NOT the one that originally came in this bottle and is not the same purple color
but it fits very well.  This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top, dating back to the early 1900’s.
Bottle embossed
:  “
POMPEIAN / MASSAGE / CREAM
“
.
Condition
:   This bottle is in shiny clean condition.   It has traces of content haze and age wear, but there is nothing specifically wrong with it.  NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.  The stopper has no damage.  See pictures for idea of overall appearance
.
Age
:  An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand Blown-In-Mold (BIM) bottle with a tooled-top, ca early
1900’s.
Shipping
:
FREE
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You see these Pompeian bottles from time to time but most all of them you see are clear glass examples
that are not old enough to turn purple and do not have
the stopper.  All of these came with glass stoppers when new.  They original came in two sizes, this is the smaller size, and the fact that it has a glass stopper makes the jar complete.  Note too the great purple color of this bottle …
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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