ANTIQUE EARLY 1900 AMETHYST GLASS LANTERN FIGURAL CANDY CONTAINER ORIGINAL LID

Description

A pretty amethyst glass antique lantern candy container from the 1890s or early 1900 period....complete with original metal screw on base, threaded shaker lid and carrying handle........lantern shape with threaded metal base...smooth threaded lip....4 1/2"tall (6 1/4"to top of handle)...Excellent shiny nice condition with no chips or damage. (a thin "fin" of extra glass that squeezed from top of mold has a couple nicks/rough spots on top edge of lip)  A nice clean bottle with no haze. Original metal lid screws down tight. The original wire handle is bent slightly which can be straightened out.  It has shaker holes which allowed the candy container to be reused as a salt shaker .
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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 box…and 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