BEAUTIFUL faceted HOOSIER cabinet antique ALLSPICE jar SUN COLOR AMETHYST SCA

Description

An extremely beautiful
5 1/8 inch
tall
nice
SUN COLORED AMETHYST
(
SCA
)
antique HOOSIER cabinet SPICE or
FRUIT '
Allspice
' jar
with the unique faceted shape.
This is
NOT
a reproduction jar, but an ORIGINAL, 100 year old ++ genuine antique HOOSIER jar
.
Jar embossed
:  "
A
L L S P I C E
"
.
Condition
:  Jar is in EXCELLENT CLEAN condition.   It does have some shallow manufacturing flakes on inside seam of mouth, limited to the very top of the jar and the inside of the jar.   The lid covers them up. It has NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.   See pictures for better idea of overall condition.   The lid is about what you'd expect for a century  +  old lid, original and functional; but worn with some denting, as seen in the very first picture
.
Age
:  An ABM smooth lip jar, ca.
early 1900's
.
Shipping
:
FREE
domestic shipping.   We do NOT insure International orders unless buyer specifically requests this and we are able to provide an insurance estimate.  If an international 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 important for foreign buyers to know as most of our foreign shipping charges are estimates.  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 your prompt payment will hasten the turn-around time.
These old HOOSIER JARS are getting hard to find, especially the true original antique jars.  When you do find them they are often damaged and without the caps or have the wrong/damaged cap.  One of the ways to tell the originals is by the color as true to science, the old originals will turn an amethyst color over the years
...
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 jar has a nice amethyst tint to it.  It has not been colored, stained, or altered, but has turned purple from years of exposure to the sun.   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 sulfate 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.
Not only does this purple/amethyst color make this a great looking HOOSIER JAR, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique.   The jar here is in just about perfect condition
AND
has its original correct lid
,
check it out!
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