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Antique, Deep Olive BLACK Medicine Bottle #1324374

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Antique, Deep Olive BLACK Medicine Bottle  #1324374
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Rare, Antique "Black" Glass Bottle. Great as a bud vase, a Window Sill display or a colorful accent to any Powder Room.</em></td>
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Beautiful! Antique Deep olive BLACK Medicine bottle. Circa: 1855-1870 Mint Condition, since this liquid elixir bottle has no defects. This condition is also called "Attic Mint". The glass on this bottle is lightly "textured." Multiple mold seams & bubbles are visible on the bottle's exterior. Uneven base & Lip.

Did You Know?
Glassmakers produced black glass bottles on this continent and in Europe from the mid 1600s up through the latter part of the 1900s. The term Black glass refers to glass usually in shades of dark green and amber. Often the glass is so dense that the color appears black. The dark color results from impurities in the glass batch, or as a result of the proportions of the ingredients used. The primary agent producing the color is iron oxide, although other substances can produce the effect as well. Not only do this oxide turn the glass dark green or amber, but it strengthens the glass as well. These two qualitities, strength and the dark color, meant less breakage for shippers and less spoilage of the contents due to exposure to light. The black glass bottles contained wine, beer, porter, ale, cider, or other liquids.

Between 1630 and 1650, glass blowers in England began making black glass in response to demand from consumers for stronger dark colored vessels. The actual term "black glass" was not formally used until the mid 1700s. The term appears in American newspaper advertisements in the 1740s.

The first black glass bottles were free blown shaft and ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Mint</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1855 - 1870 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:USA</td></tr>

<tr><td>Height:9.25</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:2.25 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Weight:1.10</td></tr>
<tr><td>Title:Antique, Deep Olive BLACK Medicine Bottle </td></tr>

<tr><td>Materials:Glass</td></tr>
<tr><td>Type:Round</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:Sunnyvale, CA</td></tr>
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