1880s PRETTY AMETHYST 4 1/4"APOTHECARY DRUGSTORE BOTTLE ORIGINAL GROUND STOPPER

This is a shiny nice hand blown apothecary medicine bottle from the 1870s or 1880 era....no embossing....Hand blown in mold and spun, so there are no mold seams....smooth base...thin flared wide mouth ring collar....original ground glass stopper....round....4 1/4"tall (4 7/8"with stopper).....Excellent shiny nice condition with no chips or damage. A shiny clean bottle with no haze. This type of medicine bottle was used in a drug store or apothecary shop to hold medicines or ingredients for compounding prescriptions . ...THIS IS A FIXED PRICE, BUY IT NOW BOTTLE FOR SALE IN MY STORE..FREE SHIPPING WITH TRACKING ANYWHERE WITHIN THE U.S.A......Free postage only if you live within the U.S.A.....Shipping charge is NOT fully included in the price if you live anywhere outside the United States. We use the Ebay Global Shipping Program... Always a full money back guarantee(minus the return postage) if you are not happy with any of my items. . Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. We are happy to accept most forms of payment including paypal. Thank you for your business....your friendly fellow collector, Digger Dave Beeler FRESH LISTINGS NEARLY EVERY DAY. We stand proudly in support of our military men and women and their families. The beautiful amethyst or purple

color of this glass is a result of the presence of manganese in the glass, which was a decolorizer to turn the glass clear. Glass that contains manganese, when exposed to ultraviolet rays of the sun or other sources of UV rays, causes the glass to turn amethyst. Some of my amethyst bottles and glass are purpled from years of exposure to natural sunlight. Others have been purpled with the use of strong UV lights in a box…and some have been purpled by running them through a water sterilization plant, which is a safe and permanent process which does the same thing as many years of exposure to natural sunlight, except much faster. To those "purists" who falsely believe that glass cannot turn this deep amethyst

color naturally, I could take you to places where bottles and glass have turned this same shade of purple from being in the sunlight for many years