ANTIQUE 1890 AMETHYST GLASS SQUARE APOTHECARY CANDY STORE JAR WITH STOPPER

Description

This is a beautiful amethyst glass antique storage jar or candy jar that would have held hard candy or licorice or seeds on the counter of a drugstore or general store 120 years ago. No embossing.........Hand blown in 2 pc mold....smooth base.....hand tooled wide mouth flared ring collar....smooth inside neck with amethyst glass stopper that has a flower pattern on top......beautiful amethyst purple........9 1/8"tall (10 3/4"with stopper)....4 5/8"square....the hollow stopper has rounded hollow bumps around outer edge and sunflower design on top...Jar is shiny nice with no chips or damage of any kind. Shiny clean with no haze; Some very light scratches. Glass stopper has one chip on the bottom edge with a crack running up the side. It fits nice. This was a utility jar that could have been used as an apothecary jar in a drug store or candy jar or storage jar in pantry.
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THIS IS A FIXED PRICE, BUY IT NOW JAR FOR SALE IN MY STORE.
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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