Mini PURPLE antique CREME de MENTHE antique sample bottle CUSENIER Fils Aine Co

Description

A miniature
4 3/4" tall
bulbous-shaped long-necked
deep
PURPLE
AMETHYST
color
antique miniature sample
Creme De Menthe
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 1800's
.
Bottle embossed
:   "
E. CUSENIER  / F
ILS
A
INE &
C
IE
/
CREME DE MENTHE
"
.
Condition
:   This bottle is in GOOD CLEAN condition.  It may have a trace of stain or wear, but nothing significant.  It has NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc
.
Age
:   An early hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late
1800's.
Shipping
: All
DOMESTIC
shipping charges
INCLUDE
insurance. We have enjoyed shipping our items all over the world and are happy to offer most of our items to international buyers. Yet insuring International parcels is very expensive so PLEASE NOTE; we do
NOT
insure International orders unless winning buyer specifically requests this and we are able to provide an insurance quote. 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 send payment acknowledgments and shipping confirmations. Your prompt payment will assure a very quick turn-around time.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
If our 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 especially important for foreign buyers to know as most of our foreign shipping charges are rough estimates
.
This is a just a great example of a RARE miniature
CREME DE MENTHE
antique bottle that at one time contained Cream De Mint
liqueur
, as we know of it today.   We purchased a pair of these from a bottle collector who had specialized in miniature
antique
liquor bottles.   In his decades of collecting, he had only ever seen two, both of them which he bought, and he recently sold the pair to me.
So, here is one of them, and in a nice purple color ...
y
ou hear about old glass turning purple ... this 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.  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 miniature whiskey bottle has been exposed to a high heat/light source to enrich the purple color that would naturally occur if exposed to sun light for a prolonged period of time, but a lot faster.   It has not been colored, stained, or altered.    No matter how an antique bottle 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 an item is old enough to turn purple as with few exceptions, only clear glass from before 1915 have manganese in them and will turn SCA.
After this, with the start of WWI, manganese was no longer available as foreign imports decreased 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.
Generally speaking NO MORE purple glass after 1915!
Not only does this deep purple/amethyst color make this a great looking
miniature
liqueur
bottle,
but it is a very rare one as well
,
check it out!
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