This is a fairly scarce Sunken Eye pattern amethyst hand blown glass candy jar from the 1880s or 1890s… Complete with its original glass threaded lid and original steel carrying handle! Sunburst pattern on top of glass screw on lid….. Hand blown in mold…. Glass screw on lid with original heavy steel carrying handle anchored into flowers on side of lid……… Beautiful deep amethyst purple… 6 1/8″tall (7″counting lid)…. Square with round base ring…. Shiny nice with a hard to see 3/8vertical bruise in the threaded neck (which is covered by the glass lid). A couple natural nicks on top inside edge of ground lip. A shiny clean jar with no haze. The glass lid has some small chips on bottom edge. Original glass lid screws off and on easily. Handle is very solid and tight and swings up and down smoothly. IF YOU LIVE WITHIN THE U. Unless you contact me first. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Thank you for your business…. Your friendly fellow collector, Digger Dave Beeler. FRESH LISTINGS NEARLY EVERY DAY. We stand proudly in support of our military men and women and their families. 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 boxand 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. The item “1880s SUNKEN EYE PANELS AMETHYST GLASS CANDY JAR WITH GLASS LID &HANDLE NICE” is in sale since Wednesday, July 1, 2020. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Bottles & Insulators\Bottles\Antique (Pre-1900)\Jars”. The seller is “diggerdaveb” and is located in Hillsboro, Illinois. This item can be shipped worldwide.
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