ORIGINAL ANTIQUE purple DRINKING GLASS dug w/ OLD bottles blown-glass BIM 1880's

Description: A 4 3/4 inch tall beautiful DEEP SUN COLORED PURPLE drinking glass. This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE blown glass piece. With few exceptions, sun color purple glass dates from before 1914, and this is an early piece dating back to the latter 1800's, well over one century old! Condition: This antique drinking glass is in nice clean condition. It has age wear (including a small impact mark on the edge of the base) and some haze from use, but there is nothing significantly wrong with it. Age: An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE blown-glass (hand Blown-Into-Mold BIM) piece, ca. late 1800's. Shipping: FREE DOMESTIC shipping. We DO ship Internationally but we do NOT insure International orders UNLESS BUYER SPECIFICALLY REQUESTS THIS AND WE ARE ABLE to provide an insurance estimate. It is becoming increasingly difficult to insure international orders and the price can exceed the price of the item, which can negate the sale. 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. An attractive antique DRINKING GLASS that we dug up while finding antique bottles. Usually glasses like this are found broken as they did not discard them until there were broken, but this one is in excellent clean condition and it is a MAGNIFICENT PURPLE COLOR. You hear about old glass turning purple? Here is the best explanation. 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, and back in the day, it was 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 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 piece 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. It is not painted, stained, or altered, the color is not ON the glass, the color IS the glass. The only thing that is may be altered is the time it took to turn purple. It doesn't really matter whether it was turned purple by 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. The most important factor is the age of the glass as, with few exceptions, only clear glass from before 1914 has manganese in it and will turn sun-colored-amethyst. So the blown glass item has to be old enough, blown with manganese in the glass, in order to turn purple. Not only does this deep purple/amethyst color make this a great looking piece of antique glass-ware, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique, check it out!Terms of Sale: Our goal is 100% customer satisfaction. We put our 30+ years of experience in antiques to use in describing every item we list. Items are sold in a store front format and your purchase is a binding contract, so please don't be hasty when looking over the listing. We find that communication is the key to successful transactions so PLEASE completely read the item description AND ask questions before purchasing, thank you!9170-71sALABAMA ALASKA ARIZONA ARKANSAS CALIFORNIA COLORADO CONNECTICUT DELAWARE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FLORIDA GEORGIA HAWAII IDAHO ILLINOIS INDIANA IOWA KANSAS KENTUCKY LOUISIANA MAINE MARYLAND MASSACHUSETTS MICHIGAN MINNESOTA MISSISSIPPI MISSOURI MONTANA NEBRASKA NEVADA NEW HAMPSHIRE NEW JERSEY NEW MEXICO NEW YORK NORTH CAROLINA NORTH DAKOTA OHIO OKLAHOMA OREGON PENNSYLVANIA RHODE ISLAND SOUTH CAROLINA SOUTH DAKOTA TENNESSEE TEXAS UTAH VERMONT VIRGINIA WASHINGTON WEST VIRGINIA WISCONSIN WYOMING.

Price: 69.99 USD

Location: Clancy, Montana

End Time: 2024-12-25T02:00:01.000Z

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