EARLY Pontiled PURPLE antique PERFUME bottle LUBIN PARFUMEUR w/ GLASS stopper

Description

A
4" tall
(to TOP of STOPPER
)
beautiful PURPLE colored
FANCY cylinder-shaped antique
LUBIN PARFUMEUR
antique perfume bottle.  This is a very early hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a significant
GROUND PONTIL
on the base, dating it all the way back to the civil war era, 1860's
.
Bottle embossed
:  "
LUBIN / PARFUMEUR / A PARIS
"
.
Condition
:   Bottle is in good condition.  It has wear and content residue, the stopper works just fine, it is NOT stuck into the neck of this bottle as many are.  Bottle has NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.   (See photos for overall condition).  The stopper too has stain and wear but otherwise it is in the same condition as the bottle
.
Age
: An early hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a ground pontil on the base and a tooled-top, ca.
civil war era
1860's
.
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shipping charges
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Lubin was a fairly early Paris France perfumer as we find Lubin bottles among the older bottles that we find here in Montana.   For such delicate little exquisite perfume bottles, they sure show up in the early day mining camps, especially in the sections where the old 'female' boarding houses were! What a great looking antique bottle, as seen in the pictures.
The stopper is a ground-glass stopper and the bottle's neck has been ground to receive this exact stopper, so it is a perfect fit.
Back then, the higher-priced perfume bottles had ground glass stoppers which prevented any of the precious concentrated liquid perfume extract from evaporating out.   Then too, there is the beautiful PURE PURPLE color of the bottle AND the stopper.  About the pretty
pure color ... this purple color 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.   It doesn't really 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 that most important factor to make this even possible, 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 perfume bottle, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique.  As a matter of fact, it has a ground pontil on the base which dates it very early.  Unlike regular medicine of food bottles, perfume bottles lasted a very long time and were often carried in a purse.  So the open pontil that was originally on the base when made, was ground out so that the jagged edge wouldn't hurt anybody since this bottle would be handled and in use for a much longer period of time.   The
ground pontil dates it back to the civil war era- 1860's
,
check it out!
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