Tiny ultimate quack Dr KING'S NEW LIFE PILLS antique bottle light PURPLE color

Description

A tiny
2 1/2 inch tall
square-shaped
light PURPLE AMETHYST colored
a
ntique
NEW LIFE PILLS
glass bottle.
This is the REAL THING
=
New Life Pills
!   An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top, dating it all the way back to the 1800's.
Bottle embossed on 3 sides
:  "
DR. KING'S / NEW LIFE PILLS - H. E. BUCKLEN & CO. - CHICAGO, U.S.A.
"
Condition
:   Bottle is in overall good condition.  It has stain and wear, as seen in the pictures, but otherwise there isn't anything specifically wrong with it.   NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.  PLEASE see pictures to get accurate idea of bottle's overall condition.
Age
: An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late
1800'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.
This is THE REAL THING, an antique patent medicine bottle that at one time held 'NEW LIFE PILLS'!   With that kind of embossing it is the ultimate little antique patent medicine pill  bottle.   And it is so small, it's quite collectible as a miniature antique bottle, a very active category of bottle collecting.  Then too there is the
PURE PURPLE color ... y
ou hear about old glass turning purple, this purple color is the result of having manganese in the glass.    Manganese is a mineral, a rock, and back in the day it was mined, crushed, and pulverized into 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 little bottle such as this one.   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 rays the purpler it becomes and this one is quite purple but it is a translucent purple, you can still see through it.  Not only does this deep purple/amethyst color
make this a great looking antique bottle but it also authenticates it as being truly antique,
chec
k i
t out!
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!
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