RARE tiny COLORED COFFIN shape antique SOLON PALMER Perfume bottle BLOWN GLASS

Description

A TINY
3" tall
tall-slender
rectangular/coffin-shaped
beautiful DEEP PURPLE amethyst-colored
antique
PERFUME BOTTLE.
This is a Solon PALMER embossed perfume bottle, 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
:   "
SOLON PALMER / NEW YORK
"
.
Condition
:   This bottle is in nice clean condition. It has a tiny smooth paper thin shaving of glass missing from below the lip, it looks like it  was part of the manufacturing process as it is smooth, not jagged or chipped.  Other than that there isn't anything specifically wrong with it.   NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.   (See photos for overall condition)
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Age
: An early hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late
1800's
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A great looking little PALMER bottle and one that is rarely seen.   Note that it is kind of a coffin shaped bottle, it is tapered so that the base is wider than the shoulders.   It is actually so small that it is surprising to see that it is embossed, but it is crisply embossed on each side.  I imagine that this bottle is this size so it would fit into a purse or handbag, and it probably held a very concentrated fragrance.  And it is also this beautiful
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 molten liquid glass that acted as a decolorizing agent to turn the naturally aqua-tinted glass into a pure crystal clear colorless glass.   Then later, 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.  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.
More about the Solon Palmer company,
Solon Palmer, the founder of this company, became one of the most successful perfumers in America, and was probably the first to engage in the manufacture of perfumes on a commercial scale, with the height of popularity coming in the 1890-1920's time period. He was born in New Hampshire on February 23, 1823. Growing to adulthood, he moved west to Cincinnati Ohio where in June of 1847, he opened his first perfume shop at 8 West 4th Street. Business was good, and he moved several years later to 169 Main street where he occupied a 3 story building.  Solon Palmer sought an even larger market, and in 1871 he moved the business to New York City.   Due to continued success, the company moved again in NYC to larger quarters at 376 Pearl Street, occupying a store and basement, each having an area of 50x100 feet and being fitted with all of the necessary cosmetic products to suit an ever growing American populace.  Palmer carried a heavy and complete general stock, and gave employment to a number of hands, to manufacture and handle it.   He had up to sixteen traveling salesmen in early twentieth century America, who were constantly on the road.  As a result, Palmer's goods could be be found on the counters and shelves of every leading drug and fancy goods store in every city and town of importance in this country.   Palmer's soaps and perfumes were manufactured by him in all odors, and put up in all styles from the plain clear glass little vials, to elaborate and fancy cut and colored apothecary display bottles.    As early as the 1870's, Solon's son Eddy had begun to work in the business, and in 1892, Solon made his son a full business partner.   Founder Solon Palmer passed away at his home on 622 West End Avenue on January 19, 1903.  Eddy Palmer continued to grow the business, and it was during the time period of 1890-1920, that most the attractive PALMER'S bottles were made (LIKE THIS ONE) the ones that the bottle collectors of today collect.  In 1934, Eddy Palmer passed away and control of the business went to his sons, Lubin and Solon. The company continued in business through the 1940's, but gradually lost market share and, from what little can be found, went out of business in the early 1960's.
This bottle is one of the very few tangible things left behind that testify to this once thriving cosmetic dynasty
, and this example here is about as nice of an example as a collector could find
,
check it out!
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