Antique GILLETT EXTRACT bottle PURE PURPLE w/ pic OWL on CRESCENT MOON

Description

A
5 5/8" tall
rectangular-shaped
deep  PURPLE AMETHYST color
antique
FLAVORING EXTRACT
b
ottle.
This bottle has an
embossed picture of an owl perched on a crescent moon
, within the front indented panel.
This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top, dating OVER 100 YEARS OLD
.
Bottle embossed
:  "
GILLETT'S / DOUBLE / EXTRACT - E.W. GILLETT - CHICAGO, U.S.A.
"
Condition
:   Bottle is in good solid condition.  It has dull stain and light wear but there is nothing significantly wrong with it. NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc
.
PLEASE see picture for general idea of bottle's overall appearance.
Age
:  An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca.
late 1800 - early 1900's
.
Shipping
:
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domestic shipping,
includes
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A nice looking antique bottle with the embossed picture of an OWL on the front of it, the Trade - Mark.
These bottles come in nearly a dozen sizes, from the dinky little half 1/2 ounce size, just a few inches tall all the way up to the VERY LARGE about 10" tall QUART SIZE.
We've seen these bottles with food coloring labels, flavoring extract labels, and even one with a medicinal CASTOR OIL label.   There are also round Olive-type bottles that have this same Owl Trade Mark embossed on the base of them along with several beveled spice bottles with the same trade mark imprinted into the base of them.   This company started out in 1852 Chicago by E. W. Gillett and went on into the 1920's as the Sherrer-Gillett Company, and from there I lose track of them.   They also packaged different spices in great looking old tins and boxes, with this same excellent owl-on-the-crescent-moon trade mark.
This purple color of this one 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.   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.  Though some may suggest that this lavender color has been artificially produced or altered if it was purpled by any other source than natural sunlight, the only thing that may be altered is the time it took to turn purple.   We had a friend of ours accelerate the sun color purple process by running this bottle through an industrial food sterilizer which has the same affect as the sun, but a lot faster.   And it really doesn't matter whether a bottle has 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.  But what IS important is the age of the bottle as, with few exceptions, only clear glass from before 1914 has manganese in it and will turn sun-colored-amethyst.   So a bottle 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 antique bottle, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique,
check him out!
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