Pure PURPLE antique KERKOFF PARIS perfume bottle EMBOSSED, labeled, and STOPPER

Description

A
4.5 inches
tall
(to top of stopper)
beautiful DEEP PURPLE AMETHYST colored
exquisitely beautiful shaped antique
Perfume bottle
.   A beautiful
FANCY BOTTLE
in a
DEEP TRANSLUCENT PURPLE
color, that is nicely
EMBOSSED
, comes with the
CORRECT
GLASS STOPPER
, and also has
PAPER LABEL
on it.   This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top, dating it all the way back to the 1800's
.
Bottle embossed
:  "
D.'Kerkoff
/ PARIS
"
.
Condition
:   This bottle is sparkling clean condition, NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.  The glass stopper is the ORIGINAL and CORRECT glass stopper, it is NOT stuck in the bottle, BUT it has a large section of it cleanly  broken off, as seen in the pictures. PLEASE see photos for overall appearance of bottle, stopper, label, embossing, condition)
.
Age
:  An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late
1800's
.
Shipping
:
FREE
domestic shipping,
includes
insurance.   We do NOT insure International orders unless buyer specifically requests this and we are able to provide an insurance estimate.  If an international shipping charge is much more than the actual shipping cost, we will refund the excess so what YOU pay for shipping/insurance is very close to, if not exactly, the ACTUAL shipping costs! This is important for foreign buyers to know as most of our foreign shipping charges are estimates.  We do not falsify information on the Customs Form, such as a price other than what the actual purchase price is, so please do not request us to do so. We ship several times a week and your prompt payment will hasten the turn-around time.
Just a beautifully designed small antique French Perfume bottle that is typical of the ones that made their way out west where it was discovered over a century past when it was emptied.  The stopper
IS
the correct stopper to the bottle and it is
NOT
stuck but goes in and out of the neck freely.   What is sad is that we broke the stopper ourselves.  It slid out of the bottle and landed on a cement floor and that was that.   But overlooking this, t
he bottle is very attractive, the embossing, label, original ground-glass stopper, fancy lettering, and the pure purple color
.   More about the purple color
... you hear about old glass turning purple in the sunlight ... The beautiful purple amethyst color of this bottle is the result of being made with manganese in the glass, a mineral that was pulverized and added to vats of liquid glass that acted as a decolorizing agent to turn the natural aqua-tinted glass into a pure crystal clear colorless glass.  Exposure to ultraviolet rays of the sun or other sources of UV rays, triggers a chemical reaction and the manganese oxidizes and turns a wonderful amethyst color.  This bottle has been exposed to a high heat/light source to enrich the purple color that would naturally occur if exposed to sun light for a prolonged period of time.   With few exceptions, only glass made before 1914 will turn purple.  Not only does this deep purple/amethyst color make this a great looking bottle, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique
.
All of this together makes for a a HARD TO FIND antique BOTTLE that is rather exquisite looking
,
check it out!
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