A
5 1/4 inch tall
cylinder-shape
deep SUN COLORED AMETHYST
(
SCA
)
antique grape juice bottle.
This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top, dating back into the late 1800’s.
Bottle embossed in border
:  “
VINELAND / GRAPE JUICE
“
.
Condition
:  Bottle is in good solid condition.  It has some age wear and stain (patina) from 100 + years of time but there is nothing specifically wrong with it; NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc
.
Age
:  An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late 1800’s – early 1900’s
.
Shipping
:
FREE
domestic shipping,
includes
insurance.   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.
A super nice looking little bottle that looks
like a mini soda bottle but is a Grape Juice bottle.   This bottle looks exactly like the same bottle put out by the WELCH’s Grape Juice company, everything about it except that instead of it reading “WELCH” it is embossed “VINELAND”.  We have included a picture of a WELCH bottle just for comparison, to see what I am referring to as a picture is worth 1,000 words.  But the WELCH bottle is NOT part of this sale, it is one we sold in the past.  Either the Vineland Company was connected to the WELCH company or, it was a competitor and had their bottles made to imitate Welchs grape juice.  There aren’t many of these VINELAND bottles around so it was sold in this bottle for a very short term.  It is the earliest style of this type of grape juice bottle, with the rectangular border that the embossing is within, as it is a true and original ANTIQUE hand Blown Into Mold bottle (BIM) with a tooled top.  By the book this hand blown style of bottle pre-dates 1903, when the automatic bottle machine came into being and eventually took over the hand blown process.  And it is an attractive rich purple color.
You
hear about old glass turning purple in the sunlight …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.  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
sulphate 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.
In summary, not only
does this purple/amethyst color make this a great looking bottle, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique
,
check it out!
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