Great old MICRO makes the HAIR GROW antique OREGON bottle PURE PURPLE color

Description

A wonderful
7" tall
square-shaped
deep PURPLE AMETHYST colored
antique
HAIR GROWER
quack bottle.
For those of us out west, what really makes this bottle is that
it is embossed from PORTLAND OREGON
.  This is a very early hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top, dating it all the way back to the 1800's
.
Bottle FULLY embossed on two sides
:  "
MICRO / MAKES THE HAIR GROW - HOYT CHEMICAL CO. / PORTLAND, OREGON"
Condition
:   Bottle is in good solid condition.  It has a uniform dull finish and some traces of wear, all things that were left from 125 years of time.  It has NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.  Please see pictures for overall idea of bottle's condition
.
Age
: An early hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late
1800's
.
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shipping charges
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YOU
pay for shipping/insurance is very close to, if not exactly, the
ACTUAL
shipping costs! This is especially important for foreign buyers to know as most of our foreign shipping charges are rough estimates
.
What a great slogan on this antique western bottle, "
MICRO Makes the Hair GROW
"!  This bottle is not only FULLY EMBOSSED on two sides but for appearance sake, the embossing is within two large sunken or indented panels.  Then too, it has PORTLAND OREGON fully spelled out in LARGE embossing, and OREGON is NOT abbreviated but fully spelled out "O-R-E-G-O-N".   This product/bottle comes from an era when even hair tonic was advertised with fraudulent statements, quack claims such as products capable of GROWING hair and CURING baldness.   And this bottle is no exception, a
great antique quack = Hair Grower bottle, and from the 1800's.
This one certainly has all of the criteria to qualify for a 'true quack' hair tonic bottle when it is embossed, "
MAKES the HAIR GROW
", a genuine quack hair tonic bottle.  Then too, it is a very attractive deep PURPLE AMETHYST color.
You hear about old glass turning purple ...
the 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.   Then it was blown into a mold to create a bottle, jar, or other object.   But when exposed to the ultraviolet rays of the sun or other sources of UV rays, it triggers a chemical reaction and the manganese starts to oxidize and slowly turns a lavender or amethyst color.   The end result is what collectors refer to as SCA (Sun Colored Amethyst) glass.   The longer it is in the sun the purpler it becomes.  This bottle was passed through some concentrated UV rays. which has the same affect as the sun, but a lot faster.   It has not been colored, stained, or altered.    No matter how a bottle or jar has turned purple (direct sunlight or UV rays in controlled environment) they all turn the same purple color as it is the same chemical reaction taking place.   The only difference is the time it took to turn purple.  What is important is that a bottle or jar has to be old enough to turn purple as with few exceptions, only clear glass from before 1915 has manganese in it and will turn SCA.  Then, with the beginning of WWI, manganese was no longer available as foreign imports deceased and domestic resources turned towards the war effort.   Selenium sulphate then replaced manganese as a glass de-colorizer and when exposed to UV rays, it turns a yellow / straw color, and a dark burnt amber color.  So, not only does this deep purple/amethyst color make this a great looking antique bottle, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique.
T
his bottle fits well into a line up of other color hair grower / tonic bottles
.  It is a scarce bottle as well and in a nice LARGER size, all the right stuff
,
check it out!
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