Translucent PURPLE antique DR PRICE\'S FLAVORING EXTRACT bottle style BLOWN GLASS For Sale

• Bottle embossed: \"DR. PRICE\'S / DELICIOUS / FLAVORING EXTRACTS\".

• Condition:This bottle is in good clean condition. It has a small nick on the edge of lip, no harm, and typical age wear/haze/patina but otherwise there isn\'t anything significantly wrong with it. (See photos for overall condition).

• Age: An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late 1800\'s.

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These Dr PRICE EXTRACT bottles carried everything from Vanilla Extract to Green Food Coloring to Castor oil, and they came in many different sizes and style over the years. What reallymakes this bottle stand out is the color. With clearglass, you are looking THROUGH the embossing, with this purpleglass you are looking AT the embossing. The beautifulpurple amethyst color of this bottle is the result of being made withmanganese in the glass, a mineral that was pulverized and added to vatsof liquid glass that acted as a decolorizing agent to turn the naturalaqua-tinted glass into a pure crystal clear colorless glass. Exposureto ultraviolet rays of the sun or other sources of UV rays, triggers achemical reaction and the manganese oxidizes and turns a wonderfulamethyst color. This bottle has been exposed to a high heat/lightsource to enrich the purple color that would naturally occur if exposedto sun light for a prolonged period of time. No matter how an antique bottle has turned purple(direct sunlight or UV rays in controlled environment) they all turn thesame purple color as it is the same chemical reaction taking place.The only difference is the time it took to turn purple. What isimportant is that an item is old enough to turn purple as with fewexceptions, only clear glass from before 1915 have manganese in them andwill turn SCA. Afterthis, with the start of WWI, manganese was no longer available asforeign imports decreased and domestic resources turned towards the wareffort. Selenium sulphate then replaced manganese as a glassde-colorizer and when exposed to UV rays, it turns a yellow / strawcolor, and a dark burnt amber color. Generally speaking NO MORE purple glass after 1915! Not only does this deep purple/amethyst color make it a great looking bottle, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique, check it out!

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