BEAUTIFUL Deep Purple QUART antique MASON 1858 PATENT fruit jar OLD - CLEAN

Description

A beautiful
7 inch + tall
quart size
stunning DEEP PURPLE AMETHYST color
(
SCA
)
antique Fruit Jar.
This is NOT a reproduction but an
ORIGINAL ANTIQUE 1800's
canning jar
and it comes with an original
WHITE
MILK GLASS
lined ZINC lid
.
Jar is embossed
:  "
MASON'S / PATENT / NOV 30
TH
/ 1858
"
.
Base of jar embossed
:  "
214
"
, no other embossing
.
Condition
:  This jar is in clean condition.  It has some spots of stain - traces of wear, but nothing significant.  NO chips, cracks, dings, damage, etc.   Please see pictures
for overall appearance of jar.
Age
: An early hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a ground-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
.
An absolutely beautiful looking jar, nice
deep purple glass in this ORIGINAL ANTIQUE FRUIT;
an absolutely STUNNING color,
This TRANSLUCENT purple color is the result of this jar being made with manganese-glass.  Manganese is a mineral, a rock, that was mined, crushed, and pulverized into a powder, then added to vats of liquid glass, and acted as a decolorizing agent to turn the natural aqua-tinted glass into a pure crystal clear colorless glass.   But when exposed to the ultraviolet rays of the sun or other sources of UV rays, it triggers a chemical reaction and the manganese oxidizes and turns a wonderful amethyst color.    This jar was run through an industrial food sterilizer, a safe and permanent process which does the same thing as exposure to natural sunlight, except much faster.  Though some may suggest that this lavender color has been artificially produced or altered, the only thing that is artificial or altered is the time it took to turn purple.   Whether glass has turned purple by the sun, by UV rays in a box, or by a sterilization process, they all turn the same purple color as it is all the same chemical reaction taking place.  Most importantly, only clear glass from before 1914 will turn sun-colored-amethyst.   Not only does this deep purple/amethyst color make this a great looking antique jar, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique.
This
jar is totally functional as well and could be used as the perfect display/storage jar on a kitchen counter, holding anything from sugar, dried peas, and beans to ... rice, coffee beans, dried fruit, honey, ....  to securely hold all of these food items on your kitchen counter and really give a kitchen counter that 'country kitchen' look.   Extremely nice for an 1800's old glass jar,
check it out!
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!
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