1880s PRETTY AMETHYST PURPLE TURTLE NURSER HAND BLOWN NURSING BOTTLE

Description

A beautiful amethyst purple early hand blown "turtle" nurser bottle from the 1880s....it has no embossing....Hand blown in mold...hand tooled ring collar....oval "turtle" shape with flat bottom....6"long....Good condition with only one shallow chip on top surface only of lip & a tiny nick on side mold seam. A dug bottle with some light inside haze. This was a popular style of infant nursing bottle in the late 1800s. It would have had a stopper with a glass straw that ran inside the bottle. Attached to the stopper was a long rubber hose with a nipple on the end. The big problem with all this was the glass straw and hose would build up dangerous bacteria and germs inside. This resulted in the sickness and deaths of many babies
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THIS IS A FIXED PRICE BOTTLE FOR SALE IN MY STORE.
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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