Fancy LARGE size CHAS GULDEN antique CHERRY bottle beautiful COLOR and DESIGN

Description

A LARGE and TALL (just OVER)
9 inches tall
deep
SUN COLORED AMETHYST
(
SCA
)
uniquely shaped
CHERRY
bottle.  This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled-top, dating back to the
late 1800's
.
Base of bottle embossed
:  "
CHARLES  GULDEN / NEW  YORK
".
Condition
:  Bottle is in overall excellent condition.  It has some areas of wear and stain - scratches and scrapes, from age and use, but there isn't anything significantly wrong with it, NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.  See picture for better idea of bottle's condition.
Age
: An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca.
late-1800's
.
Shipping
:
FREE
domestic shipping.   We do ship International but 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.
This bottle is a uniquely styled bottle with eight (8) sections.  I think it was designed this way for looks as it looks great and there doesn't seem to be any other type of function in it's design.   We have seen similarly designed bottle that had paper labels on them for 'CHERRIES', so I believe that this is what the bottle originally came packed with.   It is one of the more beautifully designed and colored antique bottle that we have seen.
And too, it is in a NICE LARGER size, over 9 inches tall - you just don't see these fancily designed bottles in this tall shape
.   And the PRISTINE
PURPLE
color?
You hear about old glass turning purple in the sunlight ... here is the way it works.   This beautiful purple amethyst color is the result of this bottle being blown with manganese-glass, and then over time, being exposed to ultra violet rays which oxidize the manganese and turn it purple.  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.   But when exposed to ultraviolet rays, it triggers a chemical reaction and the manganese oxidizes and turns a wonderful amethyst color.   This can be achieved by long term exposure to sunlight and other processes that expose the item to intense UV rays.   Though some may suggest that the lavender color has been artificially produced or altered if it was purpled by any other source than natural sunlight, in reality, the only thing that may be altered is the time it took to turn purple.  It really doesn't matter whether a bottle like this has turned purple from the sun or UV rays in a controlled environment, they all turn the same purple color as it is all the same chemical reaction taking place.
Far more important is the AGE of the item, as
with few exceptions, ONLY clear glass bottles from before 1914 have manganese in and will turn sun-colored-amethyst.   Not only does this deep purple/amethyst color make this a great looking antique bottle, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique
,
check it out!
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